SUNY-B 226 West Cave mountain quarry (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Greene County, New York (42.3° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° S, 22.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oneonta Formation (Genesee Group), Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, permineralized, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by C. Cancro, ME Lyon, D. Wager, C. Wan, P. Kamande, A. Chaudry, W. Teubert, M. Morrisson, M. Barnett, K. Nezelek in May 7, 1966.

Primary reference: W. E. Stein. 2002. SUNY-Binghamton Paleobiology Collection. [W. Stein/N. Smith/N. Smith]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28392: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Manuela Gonzalez on 11.02.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Euphyllophytina "B2"
Ridged axis (dia. 3-10 mm)
Euphyllophytina "B3"
Ridged axis (dia. 10-20 mm)
Euphyllophytina "BW2"
Ridged axis with multiple lateral ramifications (dia. 3-10 mm)
Euphyllophytina "C2"
Pseudosporochnus?
Archaeopteridopsida
 Archaeopteridales - Archaeopteridaceae
Archaeopteris sp. Dawson 1871
Progymnospermopsida
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Tetraxylopteris sp. Beck 1957
Identified by collectors.