Salmon Creek East & 104 - Rochester (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 43.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, gray shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone
• Brownish gray shale containing some argillaceous limestone and some thin crystalline fossiliferous limestone layers. Fossils are abundant and well-preserved.
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 81898: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 17.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
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Favosites constrictus tabulate coral
Favosites pyriformis tabulate coral | |
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Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
| Trilobita | |
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Arctinurus nereus trilobite | |
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Bumastus ioxus Hall 1868 trilobite | |
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Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
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Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Paraechmina postica ostracod | |
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Beyrichia veronica ostracod | |
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852 ostracod | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
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Camarotoechia neglecta Hall 1852 | |
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"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites Foerste 1889 | |
| Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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Ceramopora imbricata Hall 1852 | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Pterinea emacerata oyster | |
| Pterobranchia | |
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Dictyonema retiforme graptolite | |