Where: Greene County, New York (42.3° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 22.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kiskatom Formation (Hamilton Group), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Matten (1975, p. 45):The horizon of the fossils is the Kiskatom Formation placed by Fletcher (1963), in part, into the Plattekill Formation. The latter is equivalent to the marine Skaneateles Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; black shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: permineralized

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: L. C. Matten. 1975. Addition to the Givetian Cairo flora from eastern New York. Bulletin of the Torrey Botany Club 102:45-52 [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20878: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Nicole Smith on 11.06.2002

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