College Hill Creek - 69'8" - 73'2" Herkimer (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.1° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 42.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 69'8"-73'2" feet from top

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, gray, calcareous shale and lithified, hematitic, sandy limestone

• Dark gray, calcareous, hard shale. Thin sandy limestone layers. Thin stringers of hematite.

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 82584: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Cheirurus niagarensis Hall 1868 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
"Lioclema asperum" = Leioclema
"Lioclema asperum" = Leioclema
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae