Game Farm Road, Brownville (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: New York (44.0° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 53.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Napanee Limestone Formation, Rocklandian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray grainstone

• 4-inch thick, dark gray calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Cameron. 1967. Oldest Carnivorous Gastropod Borings, Found in Trentonian (Middle Ordovician) Brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 41(1):147-150 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75226: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
"Murchisonia (Hormotoma) bellicincta" = Eroicaspira bellicincta Hall 1847 snail
Subulites (? Subulites) sp. Emmons 1842 snail
Subulites (? Cyrtospira) sp. Emmons 1842 snail
 Caenogastropoda -
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Phragmolites compressus Conrad 1838 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella rogata" = Paucicrura rogata
"Dalmanella rogata" = Paucicrura rogata Sardeson 1892