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

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Taxonomic list

Tentaculita
 Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Pentamerus oblongus de Sowerby 1839
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Stenolaemata
  - Phylloporinidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Semicosciniidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae