Beers Hill equivalent, Orthospirifer-Camarotoechia Comm., Lower West Falls Group (Devonian of the United States)

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: lagoonal; lithified, gray, silty shale and sandstone

• The fauna in this list are from lagoonal and estuarine facies.

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 3806: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 10.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• This list covers both minor and major elements in the community.
unclassified
  -
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Eoschizodidae
? Eoschizodus chemungensis clam
originally entered as "Eoschizodus? chemungensis"
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
 Cardiida -
Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria nitida" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria nitida" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
  - Tropidoleptidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis Conrad 1842
 Productida - Productellidae