Willse Four Corners - Dayville (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Herkimer County, New York (42.9° N, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 33.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Dayville Member (Coeymans Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Coarse grained gray crinoidal limestone

Primary reference: L.V. Rickard and D.H. Zenger. 1964. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Richfield Springs and Cooperstown Quadrangles, New York. Bulletin of the New York State Museum and Science Service 396:101 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76846: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 03.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
"Schuchertella woolworthana" = Xystostrophia woolworthana
"Schuchertella woolworthana" = Xystostrophia woolworthana Hall 1857
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
"Brachyprion varistriata" = Mesodouvillina varistriata
"Brachyprion varistriata" = Mesodouvillina varistriata Conrad 1842
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae