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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
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Modiomorpha mytiloides Conrad 1841 clam | |
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Elytha fimoriata" = Elita
"Elytha fimoriata" = Elita | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 |