Locality 8 (Lords Hill Ravine), Tropidoleptus shales, Mottville Member, Onondaga (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: transition zone or lower shoreface; shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous shale

• dark gray, calcareous, fossiliferous shales

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

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 8827: 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 was then assighned 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
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha mytiloides Conrad 1841 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Elytha fimoriata" = Elita
"Elytha fimoriata" = Elita
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
  - Tropidoleptidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862