The Glen - Kirkland (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: Kirkland Formation (Clinton Group), Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, hematitic, pyritic, sideritic, shelly/skeletal, red limestone

• Red, hematitic limestone. Some pyrite and siderite. Fossils abundant. Fossils not dwarf.

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 83095: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 07.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora seriata Hall 1851 tabulate coral