Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.1° 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 8818: 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 | |
Trilobita | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam | |
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Gosseletia sp. Barrois 1882 clam | |
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster
Glyptodesma sp. Hall 1883 oyster | |
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |