Where: Cattaraugus County, New York (42.5° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° S, 26.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gowanda Shale Formation (Canadaway Group), Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)
• Early Famennian, Early Nehdenian, UD II-C
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: J. M. Clarke. 1904. Naples fauna in western New York, pt. 2. New York State Museum Memoirs 6:199-454 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84701: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Praecardium vetustum" = Vetupraeca vetusta
"Praecardium vetustum" = Vetupraeca vetusta Hall 1843 clam | |
Rostroconchia | |
"Conocardium gowandense n. sp." = Bieberiana gowandense
"Conocardium gowandense n. sp." = Bieberiana gowandense Clarke 1904 |