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
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 | |
Leptodesma spinigerum Conrad 1842 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951 | |
Tylothyris mesacostalis Hall 1867 | |
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924 | |
Athyris angelica Hall 1861 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis
"Schuchertella chemungensis" = Floweria chemungensis Conrad 1842 |