Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 24.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mottville Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone
Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: T. X. Grasso. 1986. Redefinition, Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Mottville Member (Hamilton Group) in Central and Eastern New York. In E. Landing, C. E. Brett (eds.), Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part I 457:5-31 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8812: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |