Niagara Street & RR - 42.5 - 62.5 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, brown, gray, blue, calcareous shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Bluish gray, some brownish gray, calcareous shale with numerous limestone layers. Very fossiliferous particularly near top where thin limestones are composed almost entirely of ostracods or bryozoans

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora flexuosa Hall 1852 tabulate coral
Cladopora seriata Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis, Platyceras angulatum
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail
Platyceras angulatum Hall 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata Emmons 1842 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria subplana" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster
Chileata
 Dictyonellida - Eichwaldiidae
"Dictyonella corallifera" = Eodictyonella
"Dictyonella corallifera" = Eodictyonella
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Rhynchonella bidentata" = Ancillotoechia bidentata
"Rhynchonella bidentata" = Ancillotoechia bidentata Hisinger 1827
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites Foerste 1889
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Semicosciniidae
  - Phylloporinidae
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
 Cyclostomata - Diploclemidae
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
 Beyrichicopida - Aechminidae
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastus ioxus Hall 1868 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Life -
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852