Abandonded Mine by Dawes Quarry - Westmoreland (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.0° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 25.9° S, 44.5° W)

• 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

Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
"Palaeocyclus rotuloides" = Porpites rotuloides
"Palaeocyclus rotuloides" = Porpites rotuloides Hall 1852 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata Prouty 1923
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite
ssp. lunatus