Glen Edythe - 5.5' to 8.5' from top Reynales (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Monroe County, New York (43.2° N, 77.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 47.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Reynales Formation (Clinton Group), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• 4.5'-5.5' from top of Reynales. below probable Furnaceville horizon of Genesee gorge - ?Brewer's Dock member?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, micaceous, pyritic, gray limestone and lithified, micaceous, gray, argillaceous limestone

• Light gray, crystalline, pyritic limestone. Some dark gray, argillaceous limestone. Shale partings 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 81865: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 17.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata Conrad 1842 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Hyattidinidae
Hyattidina congesta Conrad 1842
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae