Onondaga Formation, Kingston (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.0° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° S, 21.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moorehouse Member (Onondaga Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Atrypa-Coelospira-Nucleospira community

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray, argillaceous limestone

• Seems like tempestite deposition, but get verification. Too shallow?; "Mid-neritic"; "Moderately argillaceous"; "Soft-substrate"; just below, but "near wave-base", with mild current activity
• Moderately to highly argillaceous, medium gray, medium to fine-grained limestone (mudstones and wackestones) with dark-weathering chert seams

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the AMNH

• Atrypa-Coelospira-Nucleospira community

Primary reference: H.R. Feldman. 1980. Level-bottom brachiopod communities in the Middle Devonian of New York. Lethaia 13:27-46 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77056: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 18.12.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Silicified fauna (Likely related to tectonic jointing that allowed percolating silica-rich fluids)
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unclassified
  -
Pseudophoracean indet.
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
"Rare"
 Inadunata -
Inadunata indet.
Inadunata indet. Sea lily
"Common"
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida -
Orthotetida indet.
Orthotetida indet. Waagen 1884
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp.
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
Originall "Schubertella sp."
 Strophomenida -
Strophomenida indet.
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta cf. demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa, Megastrophia sp.
"Strophodonta cf. demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842
Originally "Stropheodonta cf. demissa" Assuming spelling error.
Megastrophia sp. Caster 1939
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena indet.
Leptaena indet. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Pentamerella arata
Pentamerella arata Conrad 1841
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
"Acrospirifer duodenaria" = Patriaspirifer duodenaria
"Acrospirifer duodenaria" = Patriaspirifer duodenaria Hall 1843
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
Megakozlowskiella raricosta
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer sp.
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Elita fimbriata
Elita fimbriata Conrad 1842
Originally "Elytha fimbriata" Assuming spelling error.
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp.
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer indet.
Eospirifer indet. Schuchert 1913
 Athyridida -
Athyridida indet.
Athyridida indet. Boucot et al. 1964
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristina cf. nasuta, Pentagonia unisulcata
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira aff. ventricosa
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris "indet. sp. 1", Athyris "indet. sp. 2"
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Rhynchospirina sp.
Rhynchospirina sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira camilla
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina indet., Cyrtina hamiltonensis
Cyrtina indet. Davidson 1858
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Cupularostrum "indet. sp. 1", Cupularostrum "indet. sp. 2"
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Atribonium halli
Atribonium halli Fagerstrom 1961
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria cf. multistriata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina "indet. sp. 1", Dalejina "indet. sp. 2", Rhipidomella sp.
Dalejina "indet. sp. 2" Havlicek 1953
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea indet.
Levenea indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Stenoporidae
Dyoidophragma sp.
Dyoidophragma sp. Duncan 1939
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet.
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
"Rare"
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp., "Platyceras dumosum" = Spinyplatyceras dumosum, "Platyceras (Platyostoma) sp." = Platyostoma
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
"Common"
"Platyceras dumosum" = Spinyplatyceras dumosum Conrad 1840 snail
"Very common"
"Platyceras (Platyostoma) sp." = Platyostoma Conrad 1842 snail
"Common"
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
"Rare"
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops sp.
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite
"Rare"
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa "indet. sp. 1", Rugosa "indet. sp. 2", Cystiphyllida indet., cf. Stauriida indet.
Rugosa "indet. sp. 1" horn coral
"Rare"
Rugosa "indet. sp. 2" horn coral
"Rare"
Cystiphyllida indet. Nicholson 1889 horn coral
"Rare"
cf. Stauriida indet. Verrill 1865 horn coral
"Common"
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Heterophrentis sp.
Heterophrentis sp. Billings 1875 horn coral
"Common"
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp.
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
"Common"
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Breviphrentis sp.
Breviphrentis sp. Stumm 1949 horn coral
"Common"
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
cf. Syringaxon sp.
cf. Syringaxon sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
"Common"
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
"Common"
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora sp.
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
"Common"
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
? Ceratopora sp., Aulopora sp.
? Ceratopora sp. Grabau 1899 tabulate coral
"Common"
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
"Common"
Actinophyllum
  -
Actinophyllum sp.
Actinophyllum sp. Phillips 1848
"Common"