Mt. Tom Reef (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Reef 2197

Where: St. Johnsville County, New York (43.0° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° S, 22.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• lower Eifelian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; bafflestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: T. H. Wolosz and D. E. Paquette. 1988. Middle Devonian reefs of the Edgecliff Member of the Onondaga Formation of New York. CSPG Memoir 14(2):531-539 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79593: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 14.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Emmonsia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Cyathocylindrium sp. Oliver 1974 horn coral
 Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
Acinophyllum sp. McLaren 1959 horn coral
Cylindrophyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral