Wolcott Creek - Rochester bottom (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, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, calcareous shale and lithified, flat-pebble, argillaceous lime mudstone

• Brownish gray, calcareous shale with very few argillaceous limestones. Fossils abundant. Some layers filled with them. Whitfieldella cylindrica very common in lowest layers exposed in stream bed. Fossils of this species making up the major part of some 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 82510: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites limulurus
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Homalonotus delphinocephalus
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
"Proetus corycoeus" = Decoroproetus corycoeus
"Proetus corycoeus" = Decoroproetus corycoeus Conrad 1842 trilobite
originally entered as "Proteus corycoeus"
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Beyrichia veronica
 Palaeocopida - Kloedenellidae
Dizygopleura proutyi
 Palaeocopida - Aechminidae
Paraechmina postica
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea emacerata
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Mesotrypa nummiformis
  - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora asperatostriata
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella elegantula
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella hybrida
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella cylindrica, Whitfieldella nitida
Whitfieldella nitida Hall 1843
oblata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia obtusiplicata, Camarotoechia neglecta
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sulcatus
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis, "Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella subplana
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
"Pholidops squamiformis" = Craniops
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites hisingeri
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
Cytherina
  -
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852