Second Creek & 104 - Rochester (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 43.2° 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, calcareous shale and lithified limestone

• Brownish gray calcareous shale. A few limestone layers. Fossils not abundant and rock badly weathered.

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 81905: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 18.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
 Lichida - Lichidae
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Bumastus ioxus Hall 1868 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae