The Glen - top 2'10" Willowvale (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.0° N, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.0° S, 44.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Willowvale Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, blue, calcareous shale

• Bluish gray calcareous shale. Shale crumbles rather than breaks parallel to any bedding.

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 83096: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 07.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata Prouty 1923
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Strophostylus cancellatus" = Strophostylus cancellata, Cyclonema varicosum
"Strophostylus cancellatus" = Strophostylus cancellata Hall 1847 snail
Cyclonema varicosum Hall 1861 snail
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Pyrenomoeus cuneatus Hall 1852 clam
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae