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
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 | |
Striispirifer niagarensis Conrad 1842 | |
Eurypterida | |
Eurypterida indet. Burmeister 1843 eurypterid | |
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite | |
Pterobranchia | |
Reticulograptus sp. graptolite |