Summit-2-DZ (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Schoharie County, New York (42.6° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 22.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: middle varcus conodont zone, upper Windom Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, condensed, gray siltstone

• dark gray silt with reworked pebbles

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by James Zambito in Summer/Fall 2008

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. J. Zambito. 2008. Field notes and samples, 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 86644: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 10.02.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
"Leiopteria laevis" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster
Rhynchonellata
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily