College Hill Creek - Kirkland Iron Ore (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.1° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 42.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kirkland Iron Ore Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, hematitic, sideritic, red, argillaceous, sandy limestone

• Red, hematitic limestone. Some layers sandy, some argillaceous. Some siderite

Size class: macrofossils

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 82585: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella subplana
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Acanthoclema asperum
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella elegans
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa solida
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora seriata
Cladopora seriata Hall 1851 tabulate coral