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
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Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852 | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Trilobita | |
Homalonotus delphinocephalus trilobite | |
Dalmanites limulurus trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Cladopora seriata Hall 1851 tabulate coral |