Where: New York (43.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° S, 44.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: C6 brachiopod zone, Williamson Shale Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Listed as Upper Llandovery, C6. Type locality; BA 3/4 Palaeocyclus-bryozoan association

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous, silty claystone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, calcareous siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B.Y. Eckert and C. E. Brett. 1989. Bathymetry and paleoecology of Silurian benthic assemblages, late Llandoverian, New York State. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 74:297-326 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77053: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 18.12.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

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