Niagara Street & RR - 16 to 17.5 feet (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Niagara County, New York (43.2° N, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 44.5° 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, dolomitic limestone and lithified, dolomitic, calcareous shale
• Transition zone. Dolomitic limestone interbedded with dark dolomitic calcareous shale. Fossils rare.
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 81803: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 16.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites Foerste 1889 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 |