Salopea-nuculoid community, Joslin Hill Fm. (Silurian of the United States)

Where: New York (43.2° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 28.0° S, 42.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cycle VII zone, Joslin Hill Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• "Cycle VII"

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale

• "dolomitic ss with sh"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. H. Zenger. 1971. Uppermost Clinton (Middle Silurian) stratigraphy and petrology, east-central New York. University of the State of New York (417) [M. Uhen/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 530: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.01.1999, edited by Pete Wagner and Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Ziegler et al. 1971 unpublished. Zenger, 1971."
unclassified
  -
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Trimerus sp. Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
"Coolinia sp." = Fardenia (Coolinia)
"Coolinia sp." = Fardenia (Coolinia) Bancroft 1949
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
Amphistrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus sp. Foerste 1909
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rhynchotreta sp. Hall 1879
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Homoeospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
originally entered as "Homeosppira sp."
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristina sp. Hall 1867
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Stenolaemata
  - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Cornellites sp. Williams 1908 oyster
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
 Murchisoniina -
Murchisonioidea indet.2 Koken 1896 snail