SUNY-B 1635 (CUPB) Mountain Crest Quarry (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Locality 6 in Grierson and Banks 1963

Where: Greene County, New York (42.3° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° S, 22.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oneonta Formation (Genesee Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, replaced with pyrite, replaced with limonite

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Collected by Banks, August 30, 1960.

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 28928: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Manuela Gonzalez on 05.03.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Euphyllophytina "B3"
Ridged axis (dia. 10-20 mm)
Euphyllophytina "BZ2"
Ridged axis with lateral ramification (dia. 3-10 mm)
Cladoxylopsida
 Pseudosporochnales -
cf. Eospermatopteris sp. Goldring 1924
Identified by collector.
Aneurophytopsida
 Aneurophytales - Aneurophytaceae
cf. Aneurophyton rachides
Mentioned by collector.