Blind Sodus Creek - Rochester (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Cayuga County, New York (43.3° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.9° S, 43.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, gray, calcareous shale
• Brownish gray, calcareous shale
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 82535: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata | |
Whitfieldella nitida Hall 1843 | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterinea emacerata oyster | |
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata
"Pterinea undata" = Clionychia undata Emmons 1842 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Trilobita | |
Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
"Proetus stokesi" = Warburgella stokesii
"Proetus stokesi" = Warburgella stokesii Murchison 1839 trilobite | |
Arctinurus nereus trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852 ostracod | |
Dizygopleura proutyi ostracod | |
Anthozoa | |
Enterolasma caliculum horn coral |