Niagara Gorge - Rochester Shale 120-124 feet (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Niagara County, New York (43.2° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 45.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown, gray, blue, calcareous shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Bluish gray, very calcareous shale with numerous thin limestone layers. Limestone highly fossiliferous

Primary reference: T. Gillette. 1947. The Clinton of Western and Central New York. New York State Museum Bulletin (341) [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81782: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 15.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites Foerste 1889
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Batostomellidae
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
 Cyclostomata - Diploclemidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cryptostomata - Semicosciniidae
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
  - Phylloporinidae
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora seriata Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Cytherina
  -
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852