Highland Mills - Oriskany - Erie Cut (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: Oriskany Formation (Tristates Group), Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified sandstone
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 76165: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 14.11.2007
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Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Strophomenata | |
Eodevonaria arcuata Hall 1857 | |