Wiscoy Sh. and Ss., Java Gp., Cyrtospirifer-Douvillina Comm., southern New York (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.1° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° S, 25.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Wiscoy Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• This formation is equivalent to the Foreknobs Fm. in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, burrowed shale and sandstone

• This community is from inner delta platform and nearshore (estuarine, lagoonal, and distributary mouth bar) settings.

Primary reference: G. R. McGhee and R. G. Sutton. 1981. Late Devonian marine ecology and zoogeography of the central Appalachians and New York. Lethaia 14(1):27-43 [A. Miller/A. Webber]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3925: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 11.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma spinigerum Conrad 1842 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris angelica Hall 1861
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis Conrad 1842