Abandonded Mine by Dawes Quarry - Westmoreland (Silurian of the United States)
Where: Oneida County, New York (43.0° N, 75.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 29.0° S, 89.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Westmoreland Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, red grainstone and lithified shale
• Red, oolitic iron ore with a shale parting near the center. All the fossils listed come from shale parting
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 82608: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.07.2008
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Taxonomic list
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| Trilobita | |
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Dalmanites limulurus lunatus trilobite | |
| Anthozoa | |
"Palaeocyclus rotuloides" = Porpites rotuloides
"Palaeocyclus rotuloides" = Porpites rotuloides Hall 1852 horn coral | |
| Trilobita | |
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Calymene clintoni trilobite
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Atrypina disparilis Hall 1852 | |
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata Prouty 1923 | |
| Strophomenata | |
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
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Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
| Lingulata | |
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Lingula lamellata Hall 1843 | |