Second Creek at Alsa Farms - Upper Sodus (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 45.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Sodus Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone
• Green to greenish gray shale with thin layers of limestone. Limestone usually pearly layers, but other brachiopods and even gastropods form some limestone. In upper part some layers bluish gray in color. Shale well-exposed. Very fossiliferous. Coelospira appear dwarf in uppermost layers.
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 81915: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 18.07.2008
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Taxonomic list
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| Stenolaemata | |
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Helopora fragilis Hall 1851 | |
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Phaenopora ensiformis Hall 1852 | |
| Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Ctenodonta lata clam | |
| Demospongiae | |
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Chaetetes lycoperdon demosponge | |