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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Cheirurus niagarensis Hall 1868 trilobite | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula lamellata Hall 1843 | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Lioclema asperum" = Leioclema
"Lioclema asperum" = Leioclema | |
Pterobranchia | |
Dictyonema retiforme graptolite |