Wolcott Creek - Rochester top (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° S, 44.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• top 34 feet of section
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, gray, calcareous shale and lithified, brown, gray, argillaceous lime mudstone
• Brownish gray, calcareous shale with abundant dark brownish gray, argillaceous limestone layers. Limestones dominate in upper part. One layer particularly resistant 5ft 3in thick forms caps of Wolcott falls.
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 82509: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Trilobita | |
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Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
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Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
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Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
| Anthozoa | |
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Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |