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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Stenolaemata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Camarotoechia neglecta Hall 1852 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
Cytherina | |
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852 |