Black River wave baffle margin 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., Black River Group"

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; carbonate

• "carbonate, broken Tetradium in pelmicrite matrix. shallow subtidal (BA3). 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 324: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Walker 1972, 1973. GSA Bull."
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Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora labyrintha
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp.
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Plectonotus sp.
Plectonotus sp. Clarke 1899 snail
<1
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospiridae indet.
Lophospiridae indet. Wenz 1938 snail
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta sp.
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras sp.
Michelinoceras sp. Foerste 1932
<1
 Actinocerida - Actinoceratidae
Actinoceras ruedemanni
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastus sp.
Bumastus sp. Murchison 1839 trilobite
<1
 Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurus extans
Bathyurus extans Hall 1847 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp.
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod
Tetradium
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Tetradium cellulosum