Blind Sodus Creek - bottom 13'6" 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 (432.9 - 430.6 Ma)

• bottom 13' 6"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• bluish gray shale, some calcareous

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 82537: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae