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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rhynchotreta cuneata Dalman 1828
americana
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 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 - Meristellidae
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastus ioxus Hall 1868 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite