Salmon Creek East Lower Sodus bottom (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, New York (43.3° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.0° S, 46.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Sodus Formation), Aeronian to Aeronian (440.8 - 433.4 Ma)

• bottom 5.5 feet of member

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale and lithified limestone

• dark gray or purple shale. Thin Limestones very rare.

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 81901: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 17.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea obsoleta Hall 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
"Lingula perovata" = Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata
"Lingula perovata" = Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata Hall 1852
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae