Fruitland Ore Pit - bottom 4' 4" 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, argillaceous, sandy limestone
• Light gray limestone, argillaceous limestone common. Some thin sandy layers.
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 81868: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 17.07.2008
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Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis horn coral | |
Favosites favosideus tabulate coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
"Platystrophia biforata" = Platystrophia biforatus
"Platystrophia biforata" = Platystrophia biforatus Schlotheim 1820 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata, "Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
Lophophorata | |
Stenolaemata | |
Helopora fragilis Hall 1851 | |
Phaenopora explanata Hall 1852
Phaenopora ensiformis Hall 1852 | |
Ostracoda | |
Zygobolba curta ostracod
Zygobolba excavata ostracod
Zygobolba inflata ostracod
Zygobolba prolixa ostracod
Zygobolba rectangula ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops trisulcata" = Phacopidella trisulcata
"Phacops trisulcata" = Phacopidella trisulcata Hall 1852 trilobite | |
Homalonotus sp. König 1825 trilobite | |
Encrinurus ornatus trilobite | |
Goldius niagarensis trilobite |