Where: Oneida County, New York (43.0° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 27.2° S, 42.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Herkimer Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)
• 21'2" to 22'8" measured from top
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray sandstone and lithified shale
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 82595: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.07.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchotreta cuneata Dalman 1828 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolopsis ovata Conrad 1842 clam | |
Pterinea emacerata oyster |