Eocoelia-nuculoid community, Sauquoit Fm. (Silurian of the United States)

Where: New York (43.2° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 42.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cycle V zone, Sauquoit Formation, Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• "Cycle V, lower Sil."

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale

• "sandy sh w/ ss layers"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Gillette. 1947. The Clinton of Western and Central New York. New York State Museum Bulletin (341) [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 531: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Ziegler et al. 1971 unpublished. Gillette, 1947"
unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Mastigobolbina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
3 species
 Palaeocopida - Eurychilinidae
Chilobolbina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Atrypina sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira sp. Hall 1863
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucanellidae
Bucanella sp. Meek 1871 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma sp. Hall 1883 oyster
Pterinea sp. Goldfuss 1832 oyster
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Amphiocoelia sp. Hall 1867 clam
originally entered as "Amphicoelia sp."
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884