Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° 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 8817: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster | |
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam | |
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |