Black River intertidal community, Black River Group (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: New York (43.2° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 53.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Black River Group, Blackriveran (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• "M. Ord."

Environment/lithology: peritidal; carbonate

• "algalaminites (carbonate); thin bedded, mud-cracked; birdseye. intertidal. (BA1) stable shelf"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: K. R. Walker. 1972. Community Ecology of the Middle Ordovician Black River Group of New York State. Geological Society of America Bulletin 83(8):2499-2524 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 322: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

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Taxonomic list

• "K.R. Walker, 1973. Strat. and env. sed. of M. Ord. Lack River Grp. in the type area- New York State. NY State Mus. and Sci. Serv. Bull. 419,43. K.R. Walker, 1972. Community ecology of the M. Ord. Black River Group of NY. GSA Bull. Cooper, 1956 (some brachs thrown in)"
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Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
? Cyrtodonta sp.
? Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam
originally entered as "? Cyrtodona sp."
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Rhynchonellida - Ancistrorhynchidae
"Ancistrorhynchia sp." = Ancistrorhyncha
"Ancistrorhynchia sp." = Ancistrorhyncha Ulrich and Cooper 1942
originally entered as "Ancistrothyncha sp."
Trilobita
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurus extans
Bathyurus extans Hall 1847 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp.
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod