Small Quarry, East Side, Swamp Road (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Morrisville

Where: Madison County, New York (42.9° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° S, 23.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cardiff Shale Member (Marcellus Formation), Cazenovia (391.9 - 383.7 Ma)

• bedding surface forming the upper terrace of the quarry about ten feet below the top

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: B. Cameron. 1968. Commensalism of New Serpulid Worm from the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) of New York. Journal of Paleontology 42(3):850-852 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75231: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.09.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Gosseletia triquetra Conrad 1838 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Vermiforafacta rollinsi
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Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Filogranites booiji Cameron 1968
 Ichnofossils -