Oneida Lake Beach (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Madison County, New York (43.2° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 43.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic, hematitic, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy grainstone and lithified shale

• Gray, sandy, dolomitic limestone. Some layers are shaly. Stringers of hematite common. Crinoid stems form some of the more pure layers

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 82559: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Aechminidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella nitida Hall 1843
oblata
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
Cytherina
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"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852