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, brown, gray, blue, calcareous shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
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 81805: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 16.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral | |
Striatopora flexuosa Hall 1852 tabulate coral
Cladopora seriata Hall 1851 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis, Platyceras angulatum
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail
Platyceras angulatum Hall 1852 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata, Amphicoelia orbiculoides
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata Emmons 1842 clam | |
Pterinea emacerata, "Leiopteria subplana" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
Pterinea emacerata oyster
"Leiopteria subplana" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
Chileata | |
"Dictyonella corallifera" = Eodictyonella
"Dictyonella corallifera" = Eodictyonella | |
Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella bidentata" = Ancillotoechia bidentata
"Rhynchonella bidentata" = Ancillotoechia bidentata Hisinger 1827 | |
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites Foerste 1889 | |
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Craniata | |
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops | |
Stenolaemata | |
Diploclema sparsum Hall 1852 | |
Ostracoda | |
Beyrichia veronica ostracod | |
Dizygopleura proutyi ostracod | |
Paraechmina postica ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Bumastus ioxus Hall 1868 trilobite | |
Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852 |