Highland Mills - Kanouse Sandstone (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Orange County, New York (41.3° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.2° S, 26.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• Onondaga Age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, coarse-grained, ferruginous, pebbly, white sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. J. Boucot. 1959. Brachiopods of the Lower Devonian Rocks at Highland Mills, New York. Journal of Paleontology 33(5):727-769 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75471: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 10.10.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
"Meristella nasuta" = Meristina nasuta
"Meristella nasuta" = Meristina nasuta Conrad 1842
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
? Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Terebratulida - Centronellidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Orthida - Platyorthidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
"Rhipidomella musculosa" = Discomyorthis musculosa
"Rhipidomella musculosa" = Discomyorthis musculosa Hall 1857
var. solaris
 Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Elytha fimbriata" = Elita
"Elytha fimbriata" = Elita
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida - Eodevonariidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena ? rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842