The Glen - Herkimer (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.0° N, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 27.4° S, 42.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Herkimer Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, hematitic, gray, calcareous sandstone and lithified, sandy limestone

• Light gray, slightly calcareous sandstone. Lowest layer more calcareous. Some sandy limestone. Mostly thin bedded stringers of hematite in basal part

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 83093: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 07.08.2008, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora seriata Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
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Rhynchonellata indet. Williams et al. 1996
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Mytilarca mytiliformis Hall 1852 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Buthotrephis
  -
"Buthotrephis ramosa" = Bythotrephis
"Buthotrephis ramosa" = Bythotrephis
 Ichnofossils -