Quarry in the Albany Rural Cemetery (Section 23) (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: New York (42.7° N, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 52.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Corynoides americanus graptolite zone, Snake Hill Shale Formation, Chatfieldian (453.8 - 451.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Riva. 1974. A revision of some Ordovician graptolites of eastern North America. Palaeontology 17(1):1-40 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197025: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 19.10.2018

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Taxonomic list

Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
Corynoides americanus n. sp. Ruedemann 1947 graptolite