Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 43.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• Transition between Rochester & Lockport
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, micaceous grainstone and lithified, sandy dolomite
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 81917: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 18.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Favosites pyriformis tabulate coral
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral | |
Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
"Zaphrentis turbinata" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis turbinata" = Zaphrenthis horn coral | |
Cystiphyllum niagarense horn coral | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conularia longa jellyfish | |
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite | |
"Proetus stokesi" = Warburgella stokesii
"Proetus stokesi" = Warburgella stokesii Murchison 1839 trilobite originally entered as "Proteus stokesi"
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Arctinurus nereus trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Paraechmina postica ostracod | |
Beyrichia veronica ostracod | |
Dizygopleura proutyi ostracod | |
Craniata | |
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Whitfieldella nitida Hall 1843 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Ceramopora imbricata Hall 1852 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Diaphorostoma niagarense" = Platyostoma niagarensis
"Diaphorostoma niagarense" = Platyostoma niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
Cytherina | |
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852 |