Ambocoelia Comm., marine offshore, Genesee time (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.0° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° S, 24.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Genesee Group, Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• Genesee Group marine offshore habitat

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; siliciclastic sediments

Primary reference: G. R. McGhee. 1981. Evolutionary replacement of ecological equivalents in Late Devonian benthic marine communities. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 34:267-283 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65694: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 24.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• this paper cites data from earlier workers, this collection being Thayer 1974, but these data are not specifically tabulated in that publication - the general list from that pub is entered as collection 65400 under that reference
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
"Camarotoechia" sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Atrypa" sp. Dalman 1828
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860