Also known as USGS 7604-CO. About 800 feet southeast from cluster of buildings immediately east of School House Marsh.
Where: Washington County, New York (42.6° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 74.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Whitehall Formation), Sunwaptan (493.5 - 487.5 Ma)
• "Lower Whitehall Fm., (Trempealeau)->Franconian?, Saukia-Serotina subzone"
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•Saukiella serotina subzone: 490.4 - 490.0 Ma, very top of Sunwaptan
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; ooidal, gray grainstone
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•"Lower Whitehall Formation. Sample composed of light- to medium-gray (N 5-7) ooid-skeletal grainstone collected in place."
Collected by R.B. Halley in 6/16/1970; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: M. E. Taylor and R. B. Halley. 1974. Systematics, environment, and biogeography of some Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician trilobites from eastern New York State. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 834:1-38 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85185: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Spirodentalium | |
? Spirodentalium sp. Walcott 1890 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail | |
Hyolitha | |
Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963 | |
Trilobita | |
Acheilops masonensis trilobite | |
Plethopeltis sp. Raymond 1913 trilobite | |
"Prosaukia" spinula Taylor and Halley 1974 trilobite | |
Euptychaspis typicalis trilobite | |
Bowmania cf. pennsylvanica trilobite |