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
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
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
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Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam | |
"Leiopteria nitida" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria nitida" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhipidomella vanuxemi Hall 1857 | |
Orthospirifer mesastrialis Hall 1867 | |
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842 | |
Tylothyris mesacostalis Hall 1867 | |
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 | |
Strophomenata | |
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis Conrad 1842 | |