Sterling Station - RR ore pit - Lower Sodus (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Cayuga County, New York (43.3° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 47.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Sodus Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, green, sandy shale and lithified limestone

• Dark greenish gray shale with thin limestone layers. Some thin sandy layers noted.

Preservation: cast, replaced with limonite

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 82540: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
"Lingula perovata" = Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata
"Lingula perovata" = Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata Hall 1852
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae