Maplewood Park - Lower Sodus Shale (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, New York (43.2° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 24.9° S, 46.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sodus Formation (Clinton Group), Aeronian to Aeronian (440.8 - 433.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, green shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• Greenish gray shale with many thin layers of limestone interbedded. Dark gray or purple shale with green increases toward base of formation. Contact sharp. Limestone layers composed of Coelospira

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 81826: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 16.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora fragilis
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Phaenopora explanata, Phaenopora ensiformis
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea obsoleta
Holopea obsoleta Hall 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta machaeriformis
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea emacerata
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta alata
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae
Zygobolba curta, Zygobolba excavata, Zygobolba inflata, Zygobolba prolixa, Zygobolba rectangula
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus ornatus