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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea sp." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea sp." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites hamiltoniae tabulate coral
Favosites argus Hall 1876 tabulate coral | |
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |