Blind Sodus Creek - upper 18'9" Irondequoit (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Cayuga County, New York (43.3° N, 76.7° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 28.3° S, 83.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Irondequoit Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• top 18' 9"
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, calcareous shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous limestone
• Gray, calcareous shale with many limestone layers. Most limestone argillaceous with some fossils. A few crystalline crinoidal layers in upper 5 feet. Reeflike bodies in upper 5 feet.
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 82536: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
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Taxonomic list
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| Anthozoa | |
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Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Camarotoechia neglecta Hall 1852 | |
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Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
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Atrypina disparilis Hall 1852 | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
| Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
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Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
| Stenolaemata | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Pterinea emacerata oyster | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Plethobolbina typicalis ostracod
Mastigobolbina typus ostracod | |
| Pterobranchia | |
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Dictyonema subretiforme graptolite | |