Spohn Road at Passage Gulf (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Spinnerville County, New York (43.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° S, 37.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Phelps Member (Fiddlers Green Formation), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• specimens found loose on scree

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; dolomite

• Stratigraphic column characterizes Phelps Member as 'massive dolomite'

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: D. Edwards, H. P. Banks, S. J. Ciurca and R. SLaub. 2004. New Silurian cooksonias from dolostones of north-eastern North America. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 146:399-413 [A. Raymond/A. Raymond/A. Raymond]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 53827: authorized by Anne Raymond, entered by Anne Raymond on 14.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Cooksonia cf. hemisphaerica
Hostinella
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Hostinella sp.
Hostinella sp. Barrande 1882
w/basal lateral structure ressembling adventitious root