Sodus Creek at Glenmark - lower 10' Rochester (Silurian of the United States)

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, gray, calcareous shale and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Dark gray, calcareous, tough shales and argillaceous limestones.

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 81922: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 18.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Cytherina
  -
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852