Beaver Creek? Irondequoit lower (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 44.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Irondequoit Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• bottom 7 feet
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, blue, calcareous shale and lithified limestone
• Bluish-gray calcareous shale with a few limestone layers.
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 82503: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Ostracoda | |
Mastigobolbina punctata ostracod
Mastigobolbina trilobata ostracod | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Whitfieldella nitida Hall 1843 | |
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 |