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: offshore; lithified, dolomitic, gray, blue, calcareous shale and lithified, argillaceous limestone
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 81920: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 18.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cystiphyllum niagarense horn coral | |
Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
"Zaphrentis turbinata" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis turbinata" = Zaphrenthis horn coral | |
Favosites pyriformis tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
"Diaphorostoma hemisphericum" = Platyostoma hemispherica, "Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis
"Diaphorostoma hemisphericum" = Platyostoma hemispherica Hall 1843 snail
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Whitfieldella nitida Hall 1843 | |
Camarotoechia neglecta Hall 1852 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Ceramopora imbricata Hall 1852 | |
Ostracoda | |
Beyrichia veronica ostracod | |
Paraechmina postica ostracod | |
Dizygopleura proutyi ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
Cytherina | |
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852 |