Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 23.9° 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 limestone
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 8814: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam | |
Pterochaenia sp. Clarke 1904 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Pustulatia pustulosa Hall 1860 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Trilobita | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Greenops boothi trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Stereolasma sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral | |
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |