Niagara Street & RR - 92.5 - 112.5 feet Reef limestone (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Niagara County, New York (43.2° N, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 45.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Irondequoit Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal reef rocks
• So-called reefs common in upper part and extends into the base of the overlying Rochester
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 81807: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 16.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818 | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Strophonella patenta Hall 1852 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Camarotoechia neglecta Hall 1852 | |
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
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Ostracoda | |
Trilobita | |
Bumastus ioxus Hall 1868 trilobite | |
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite |