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

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata Conrad 1842 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis horn coral