Niagara Street & RR - 92.5 - 112.5 feet Irondequ. limestone (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Niagara County, New York (43.2° N, 78.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.3° S, 84.9° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irondequoit Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (432.9 - 430.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, pyritic, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Light gray, coarsely crystalline, pyritic limestone. Some layers are composed of crinoid stems. Styolitic structures common.

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 81806: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 16.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer niagarensis
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella cylindrica, Whitfieldella intermedia
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily