Caleb Eurypterid Site (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Orleans County, New York (43.2° N, 78.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 27.8° S, 81.0° W (Wright 2013)

When: Lewiston Member (Rochester Shale Formation), Wenlock (432.9 - 426.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, calcareous shale

• gray, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with carbon

Primary reference: S. T. LoDuca. 1995. First report of Eurypterida from the Rochester Shale, Silurian (Wenlockian), New York. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Science 17(3):271-273 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226918: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 09.08.2022

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eurypterida
 Eurypterida -
Eurypterida indet. Burmeister 1843 eurypterid
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite
Pterobranchia
  - Cyclograptidae