Where: New York (42.7° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° S, 23.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Beers Hill equivalent Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• The unit described in this paper is the shelf equivalent to the Beers Hill shale slope facies.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified, gray, silty shale and sandstone

Primary reference: G. R. McGhee, Jr. and R. G. Sutton. 1985. Late Devonian marine ecosystems of the lower West Falls Group in New York. Geological Society of America Special Paper (201)199-209 [A. Miller/A. Webber]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3802: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 10.08.1999

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