Fruitland Ore Pit - top 1' 11" Reynales (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 23.9° S, 47.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Light gray, crystalline, slightly cherty limestone.

Preservation: replaced with silica

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 81867: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 17.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
  - Phylloporinidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus oblongus de Sowerby 1839
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis horn coral