Little Wolcott Creek - top 5.5' Irondequoit (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 43.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Irondequoit Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• top 5.5 feet
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, gray, blue reef rocks and lithified shale
• Bluish gray limestone. Some layers crystalline but mostly argillaceous with a dull gray color. The upper layer has reeflike bodies. The shale partings have the greatest fauna.
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 82511: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Stenolaemata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Atrypina disparilis Hall 1852 | |
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia | |
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites
"Orthis flabellites" = Dolerorthis flabellites Foerste 1889 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Tentaculita | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterinea emacerata oyster
Leptodesma rhomboidea oyster
"Leiopteria subplana" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
Cuneamya alveata clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail | |
Ostracoda | |
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Trilobita | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Calymene clintoni trilobite
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite | |
Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
"Proetus stokesi" = Warburgella stokesii
"Proetus stokesi" = Warburgella stokesii Murchison 1839 trilobite originally entered as "Proteus stokesi"
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"Proetus corycoeus" = Decoroproetus corycoeus
"Proetus corycoeus" = Decoroproetus corycoeus Conrad 1842 trilobite originally entered as "Proteus corycocus"
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