Where: Schoharie County, New York (42.4° N, 74.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° S, 22.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: hermanni conodont zone, unnamed Member (Geneseo Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, hematitic, gray siltstone
Collected by Charles Thayer in 1968-1970; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: J. J. Zambito. 2008. Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology. [A. Miller/J. Zambito/J. Zambito]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86339: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 29.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Trepospira rotalia" = Denayella rotalia
"Trepospira rotalia" = Denayella rotalia Hall 1862 snail | |
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata Conrad 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam | |
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster | |
Strophomenata | |
Devonochonetes scitulus Hall 1857 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 | |
Orthospirifer mesastrialis Hall 1867 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 |