Little Wolcott Creek - lower middle 22' 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)

• 15' 11" to 37' 11"

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, pyritic, gray, blue, calcareous shale

• Dark bluish gray calcareous, crumbly shale. Weathers a yellow limonitic color. Pyrite abundant in fresh rock

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 82513: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda fornicata
spelled "Chlorinda"
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Dibolbina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae