Where: Otsego County, New York (42.8° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° S, 22.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Cherry Valley Formation (Hamilton Group), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, black, argillaceous lime mudstone
Primary reference: L.V. Rickard and D.H. Zenger. 1964. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Richfield Springs and Cooperstown Quadrangles, New York. Bulletin of the New York State Museum and Science Service 396:101 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83120: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 07.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coleolus | |
Coleolus sp. Hall 1879 | |
Anthozoa | |
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Trilobita | |
"Proetus haldemani" = Dechenella haldemani
"Proetus haldemani" = Dechenella haldemani Hall 1861 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Pleurotomaria rugulata" = Mourlonia rugulata
"Pleurotomaria rugulata" = Mourlonia rugulata Hall 1860 snail | |
"Macrochilina onondagaensis" = Strobeus
"Macrochilina onondagaensis" = Strobeus snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Agoniatites vanuxemi" = Agoniatites expansus
"Agoniatites vanuxemi" = Agoniatites expansus Vanuxem 1842 ammonite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Ambocoelia cf. nana" = Crurispina nana
"Ambocoelia cf. nana" = Crurispina nana Grabau 1899 |