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 8828: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
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Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Modiomorpha mytiloides Conrad 1841 clam | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam | |
Pseudaviculopecten sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Greenops boothi trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Stereolasma sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral |