Station M131, Kilns 6 & 7 of Chazy Marble Lime Co., Chazy (Ordovician of the United States)

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: Chazy Formation, Chazyan (470.0 - 457.3 Ma)

• 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56214: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.11.2005, edited by Björn Kröger

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris
"Zygospira acutirostris" = Sphenotreta acutirostris Hall 1847
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
"Camerella longirostris" = Onychoplecia longirostris
"Camerella longirostris" = Onychoplecia longirostris Billings 1859
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania sulcatina Emmons 1842 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Lophospira subabbreviata" = Lophospira rectistriata
"Lophospira subabbreviata" = Lophospira rectistriata Raymond 1908 snail
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites magnus Le Sueur 1818 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Eunema leptonotum" = Cyclonema leptonotum
"Eunema leptonotum" = Cyclonema leptonotum Raymond 1905 snail
 Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
Raphistoma stamineum Hall 1847 snail
Tergomya
 Scenelloidea - Scenellidae
Scenella montrealensis Billings 1865
[entered as Scenella monrealensis]
Scenella pretensa Raymond 1905
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia canadensis Jones 1858 ostracod
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
"Illaenus globosus" = Stenopareia globosus
"Illaenus globosus" = Stenopareia globosus Billings 1859 trilobite