E-Bar (float) - Keeler's Eskimo Bar ice cream stand (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as SSF 63.6

Where: Columbia County, New York (42.2° N, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° S, 88.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Elliptocephala asaphoides trilobite zone, Browns Pond Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• middle Olenellus zoneLITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Initially entered as "Middle Granville Fm". From Anse Maranda Fm, which overlies the Lauzon Fm. Equivalent to the upper Browns Pond, Middle Granville, and lower Hatch Hill Fm of New York. AGE: Stage designation not stated in publication, initailly entered as "Dyeran"; from middle Olenellus zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From float in section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, dolomitic, gray siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: The limestone-bearing part of the E-Bar locality represents one of the most proximal, dark siltstone facies in the Lower Cambrian slope facies of the Taconic allochthon.
• LITHOLOGY: Dark grey debris flow, siltstone granule- to pebble-dominated with dolomitic matrix, with pebbles to boulders of echinoderm-intraclast granule pack- to grainstone (large ellipse) and calcareous siltstone (small ellipse). LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens, facies descriptions, and sample preparation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with phosphate

Collected by Landing & Bartwoski; reposited in the NYSM

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), acetic,

• COLLECTORS: Not stated in text, but presumably E. Landing and K. Bartowski. REPOSITORY: New York State Museum.

Primary reference: E. Landing and K.E. Bartowski. 1996. Oldest shelly fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and late Early Cambrian sea-levels in eastern Laurentia. Journal of Paleontology 70(5):741-761 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78767: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for marine invertebrate groups. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publications with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications where possible.
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Wanneriidae
Elliptocephala asaphoides Emmons 1844 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Fordillida - Fordillidae
Pojetaia runnegari3 Jell 1980 clam
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella primaeva Billings 1872
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
Asperconella gloriae1, "Mackinnonia obliqua" = Davidonia rostratum, "Stenotheca taconica" = Davidonia taconica, Helcionella subrugosa
Asperconella gloriae1 Landing and Bartowski 1997
"Mackinnonia obliqua" = Davidonia rostratum Zhou and Xiao 1984
"Stenotheca taconica" = Davidonia taconica Landing and Bartowski 1996
 Helcionellida - Stenothecidae
? Mellopegma ? georginensis2 Runnegar and Jell 1976
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
"Lapworthella schodackensis" = Lapworthella schodakensis
"Lapworthella schodackensis" = Lapworthella schodakensis Lochman 1956
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
 Hyolithida -
"Insolithotheca communis n. gen." = Insolitotheca communis
"Insolithotheca communis n. gen." = Insolitotheca communis Billings 1872
 Orthothecida - Orthothecidae
 Orthothecida -
Petasotheca minuta Landing and Bartowski 1996
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
"Conotheca laurentiensis" = Conotheca australiensis
"Conotheca laurentiensis" = Conotheca australiensis Bengtson et al. 1990
Conodonta
  - Amphigeisinidae
 Paraconodontida - Furnishinidae
Archaeocyatha
  -
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Discinella micans
  - Mobergellidae
Discinella micans Billings 1871
Plinthokonion
  -
"? Plinthokonion psammion" = Plinthokonion psamminon
"? Plinthokonion psammion" = Plinthokonion psamminon Landing and Bartowski 1996
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus micans Billings 1871