Schoharie. Corniferous Limestone (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Schoharie County, New York (42.7° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° S, 21.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Moorehouse Member (Onondaga Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Corniferous Limestone = Selenurus Limestone = Moorehouse Member of Ononddaga Limestone (Fisher, Devonian Stratigraphy and Paleoecology in the Cherry Valley, New York Region)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• medium to dark gray fine grained limestone, cherty

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: A. L. Stigall Rode. 2005. Systematic revision of the Middle and Late Devonian brachiopods Schizophoria (Schizophoria) and ‘Schuchertella’ from North America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 3(2):133-167 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219872: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.04.2021

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Streptorhynchus pandora" = Floweria pandora
"Streptorhynchus pandora" = Floweria pandora Billings 1860
Trilobita
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
"Cyphaspis minuscula" = Maurotarion minuscula
"Cyphaspis minuscula" = Maurotarion minuscula Hall 1876 trilobite