Oneida Outlet - Williamson (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Onondaga County, New York (43.2° N, 76.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 28.7° S, 90.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Williamson Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, pyritic, green shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone
• Green fissile shale with minor limestone lenses, pyrite. Some lenses composed mostly of fossils
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 82558: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008
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Taxonomic list
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unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Enterolasma caliculum horn coral | |
"Palaeocyclus rotuloides" = Porpites rotuloides
"Palaeocyclus rotuloides" = Porpites rotuloides Hall 1852 horn coral | |
Trilobita | |
Calymene clintoni trilobite | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Dibolbina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
Beyrichia aff. lakemontensis ostracod | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula lamellata Hall 1843 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cyrtia meta, "Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata Prouty 1923 | |
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterinea emacerata oyster
Leptodesma rhomboideum oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Cyclonema varicosum Hall 1861 snail | |
Pterobranchia | |
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Monograptus clintonensis graptolite | |
Dictyonema gracilis graptolite
Dictyonema retiforme graptolite |