Mudge Creek - Wolcott (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Wayne County, New York (43.3° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 25.5° S, 45.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wolcott Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray limestone and lithified, gray, blue, calcareous shale
• Light gray limestone, some layers crystalline. Thin light bluish gray calcareous shale common
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 82504: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Tentaculita | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Pentamerus oblongus de Sowerby 1839 | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Camarotoechia neglecta Hall 1852 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Helopora fragilis Hall 1851 | |
Phaenopora ensiformis Hall 1852 | |
Ostracoda | |
Trilobita | |
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes lycoperdon demosponge |