Little Wolcott Creek - upper middle 10'5" 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)

• 5'6" to 15' 11"

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, blue, argillaceous lime mudstone and lithified, gray, blue, calcareous shale

• Upper part bluish gray argillaceous limestone dominates. Lower part blusih gray, crumbly, calcareous shale dominates.

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 82512: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
"Dawsonoceras annulatum" = Orthocera annulata
"Dawsonoceras annulatum" = Orthocera annulata Sowerby 1816 ammonite
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae