Where: Broome County, New York (42.3° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° S, 24.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: West River Formation (Genesee Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, permineralized, replaced with limonite
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
• Collected by J.D. Grierson.
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 28551: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Manuela Gonzalez on 19.02.2003, edited by Alycia Stigall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Euphyllophytina "B1", Euphyllophytina "B2", Euphyllophytina "B4", Euphyllophytina "BY2", Euphyllophytina "C3", Euphyllophytina "G2"
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Aneurophytopsida | |
Aneurophytales indet. Beck 1957 | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Strophomenata | |