Niagara Gorge - Neahga Shale 180-186 feet (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Niagara County, New York (43.2° N, 79.1° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° S, 48.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Neahga Formation (Clinton Group), Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, lenticular, shelly/skeletal, green, argillaceous, calcareous shale
• Smooth, slightly silty, slightly calcareous, thinly laminated, platy, green shale. Fossiliferous. Specimens poorly preserved
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 81788: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 15.07.2008
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Taxonomic list
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| Buthotrephis gracilis | |
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Buthotrephis gracilis Hall 1847 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Holopea obsoleta Hall 1852 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Pterinea emacerata oyster | |
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Cuneamya alveata clam | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
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| Lophophorata | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Zygobolba curta ostracod
Zygobolba excavata ostracod | |