Bear Creek - Lower Sodus (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Wayne County, New York (43.3° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 47.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Sodus Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, sandy shale
• Dark gray or purple shale, some green shale. A few sandy layers. Very fossiliferous.
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 82525: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842 | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
| Lophophorata | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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Helopora fragilis Hall 1851 | |
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Phaenopora ensiformis Hall 1852 | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Zygobolba curta ostracod
Zygobolba excavata ostracod
Zygobolba prolixa ostracod
Zygobolba rectangula ostracod | |
| Demospongiae | |
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Chaetetes lycoperdon demosponge | |
| Buthotrephis gracilis | |
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Buthotrephis gracilis Hall 1847 | |