The Glen - bottom 18'3" Willowvale (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.0° N, 75.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.0° S, 89.5° W (Wright 2013)

• 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, green shale and lithified limestone

• Greenish gray shale with thin limestone layers near the base. Thin bedded and splits parallel to the bedding planes.

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 83097: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 07.08.2008, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema varicosum Hall 1861 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata
"Hormotoma subulata" = Murchisonia subulata Conrad 1842 snail
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Pyrenomoeus cuneatus Hall 1852 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
"Dawsonoceras annulatum" = Dawsonoceras annulatum, "Orthoceras annulatum" = Dawsonoceras annulatum
"Dawsonoceras annulatum" = Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818
"Orthoceras annulatum" = Dawsonoceras annulatum Sowerby 1818
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Rhinoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Semicosciniidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata
"Coelospira sulcata" = Eocoelia sulcata Prouty 1923
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
"Bilobites biloba" = Dicoelosia
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Retiolites geinitzianus Barrande 1850 graptolite
venosus
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
"Palaeocyclus rotuloides" = Porpites rotuloides
"Palaeocyclus rotuloides" = Porpites rotuloides Hall 1852 horn coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae