Sterling Station - RR ore pit - Furnaceville (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: Furnaceville Formation (Clinton Group), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, hematitic, ooidal, red grainstone
• Red hematitic oolitic 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 82544: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
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Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata | |
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Lophophorata | |
Stenolaemata | |
Helopora fragilis Hall 1851 | |
Phaenopora ensiformis Hall 1852 | |
Ostracoda | |
Zygobolba curta ostracod | |
Anthozoa | |
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis bilateralis" = Zaphrenthis horn coral |