Salmon Creek East Furnaceville (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, New York (43.3° N, 77.0° 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)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, hematitic limestone and lithified, hematitic, phosphatic, ooidal, green shale

• Upper 6 inches hematitic limestone. Lower 6 inches green shale with some oolites of hematite. Phosphatic nodules present.

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 81903: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 17.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Holopea obsoleta Hall 1852 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae