BR-4.1 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Montgomery County, New York (42.9° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 68.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rossodus manitouensis conodont zone, Wolf Hollow Member (Tribes Hill Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, burrowed limestone

• Wolf Hollow Member is noted for having thrombolitic buildups, but these occur higher in section at this locality; this collection comes from thick-bedded burrowed limestone.

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by E. Landing, L. Knox, S. Westrop; reposited in the NYSM

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: E. Landing, S. R. Westrop, and L. A. Knox. 1996. Conodonts, Stratigraphy, and Relative Sea-Level Changes of the Tribes Hill Formation (Lower Ordovician, East-Central New York). Journal of Paleontology 70(4):656-680 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174045: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 24.10.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Gastropods may also be present
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Conodonta
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus angulatus
Cordylodus angulatus Pander 1856 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Variabiloconus bassleri
Variabiloconus bassleri Furnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Laurentoscandodus triangularis
Laurentoscandodus triangularis Furnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Acanthodontidae
Scalpellodus longipinnatus, Acanthodus uncinatus
Acanthodus uncinatus Furnish 1938 conodont
 Panderodontida -
Loxodus bransoni