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: Meads Creek equivalent Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• The unit described in this paper is the shelf equivalent to the Meads Creek 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 3810: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 10.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
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Auloporidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 tabulate coral originally entered as "auloporid cnidarians"
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Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam | |
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Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam | |
Spathella typica Hall 1885 clam | |
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Cornellites chemungensis, Actinopteria boydi, Leptodesma sp., "Leiopteria nitida" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
Cornellites chemungensis oyster
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
Leptodesma sp. Hall 1883 oyster
"Leiopteria nitida" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
"? Vertumnia reversa" = Pterinopecten (Vertumnia), Pseudaviculopecten fasciculatus
"? Vertumnia reversa" = Pterinopecten (Vertumnia) scallop originally entered as "Vertumnia? reversa"
Pseudaviculopecten fasciculatus Hall 1883 scallop originally entered as "Pseudoaviculopecten fasciculatus"
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Rhynchonellata | |
Tylothyris mesacostalis Hall 1867
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Orthospirifer mesastrialis Hall 1867 | |
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951 | |
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 | |
Strophomenata | |
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis Conrad 1842 |