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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Pentamerus oblongus de Sowerby 1839 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis horn coral |