Fruitland Ore Pit - Furnaceville (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: Furnaceville Formation (Clinton Group), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, hematitic, ooidal, shelly/skeletal limestone
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 81869: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 17.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Gastropoda | |
Cyclora subulata snail | |
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata Conrad 1842 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophonella patenta Hall 1852 | |
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Helopora fragilis Hall 1851 | |
Trilobita | |
Encrinurus ornatus trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Zygobolba crta ostracod
Zygobolba excavata ostracod
Zygobolba prolixa ostracod
Zygobolba rectangula ostracod | |
Anthozoa | |
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis horn coral |