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

Where: Orange County, New York (41.3° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° S, 22.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kanouse Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 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: C. H. Kindle and S.H. Eidman. 1955. Fauna of the Kanouse Sandstone at Highland Mills, New York. Journal of Paleontology 29(1):183-185 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76163: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 14.11.2007, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella pandora
 Strophomenida - Eodevonariidae
Eodevonaria arcuata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa, Megastrophia hemispherica
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Protoleptostrophia perplana
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Elytha fimbriata" = Elita
"Elytha fimbriata" = Elita
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
? Spirifer duodenarius, Spirifer macra, Spirifer macrothyris, Spirifer subcuspidatus
Spirifer subcuspidatus
var. lateincisus
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
"Meristella nasuta" = Meristina nasuta
"Meristella nasuta" = Meristina nasuta Conrad 1842
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Terebratulida - Centronellidae
Prionothyris sp., Amphigenia curta, Amphigenia elongata
Amphigenia elongata Vanuxem 1842
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
"Rhipidomella musculosa" = Discomyorthis musculosa
"Rhipidomella musculosa" = Discomyorthis musculosa Hall 1857
var. solaris
 Orthida - Platyorthidae
Platyorthis sp.
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp.
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida -
? Cyrtoceras eugenium
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
? Orthoceras luxum
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Diaphorostoma lineatum" = Platyostoma lineata
"Diaphorostoma lineatum" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Hippocardiidae
"Conocardium cuneus" = Hoareicardia cunea, "Conocardium trigonale" = Hoareicardia cunea
"Conocardium cuneus" = Hoareicardia cunea Conrad 1840
"Conocardium trigonale" = Hoareicardia cunea Conrad 1840
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Cornellites flabellum, Actinopteria decussata, Limoptera sp.
Limoptera sp. Hall 1869 oyster
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus
"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus Hall 1861 trilobite
var. pipa
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Anchiopsis anchiops
Anchiopsis anchiops Green 1832 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphyllum sp.
Cystiphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1839 horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
"Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis, Heliophyllum sp.
"Zaphrentis sp." = Zaphrenthis Rafinesque and Clifford 1820 horn coral
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum sp.
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral