Locality 8, Limestone "a", Mottville Member, Onondaga Co., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.2° 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

• dark crinoidal 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 8815: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.08.2000

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Taxonomic list

• The relative abundance of each fossil taxon was established in the field by estimating the number of specimens observed in one hour from each richly fossiliferous horizon. The abundance of each taxon is assigned a code number as follows: (1) 1 to 3 specimens, (2) 4 to 12 specimens, (3) 13 to 50 specimens, (4) 50 to 200 specimens, (5) 200 to 800 specimens, (6)over 800 specimens.
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea sp." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea sp." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites hamiltoniae tabulate coral
Favosites argus Hall 1876 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855