E12, Chazy (Ordovician of the United States)
Also known as B4 of Brainerd & Seely
Where: Clinton County, New York (44.9° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 54.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Valcour Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)
• see Flower (1961, p. 13)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fine-grained, ooidal limestone
• Massive, pure limestone, fine-greained, often oolitic. In the upper part f the section there are lenses of pure limestone with churnis the fossils.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1906. The Chazy Formation and its fauna. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 3(4):498-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 56213: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.11.2005
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Taxonomic list
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Maclurites magnus Le Sueur 1818 snail | |
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Cyrtospira raymondi Hudson 1905 snail | |
"Trochonema rectangulare" = Trochonemella knoxvillensis
"Trochonema rectangulare" = Trochonemella knoxvillensis Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail [entered as Trochonema rectangularis]
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