Beaver Creek? 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)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, blue, calcareous shale
• Dark bluish gray shale somewhat calcareous. Some layers have a brownish color.
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 82501: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| unclassified | |
| Crinoidea | |
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Lecanocrinus macropetalus Sea lily | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Paraechmina postica ostracod | |
| Trilobita | |
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Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
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Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
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Whitfieldella nitida Hall 1843 | |
| 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 | |
| Stenolaemata | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Pterinea emacerata oyster | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818 | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
| Demospongiae | |
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Chaetetes lycoperdon demosponge | |
| Cytherina | |
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852 | |