Bear Creek - Furnaceville (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: Furnaceville Formation (Clinton Group), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, hematitic, ooidal, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• Oolitic, fossiliferous, hematitic limestone.

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 82532: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae