Locality 11 (Rainbow Creek), Tropidoleptus shales, Mottville Member, Onondaga Co (Devonian of the United States)

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: 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 8830: 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
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Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras sp.
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp.
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha Donald 1905 snail
Paleozygopleura (Loxonema)
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Bembexia sp.
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp.
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp.
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora sp., Modiomorpha concentrica
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria sp., "Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites, "Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites Williams 1908 oyster
Ptychopteria (Cornellites)
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp.
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida -
Pustulatia pustulosa
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer mucronatus
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp.
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
Mediospirifer audaculus
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp.
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859
  - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus sp.
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Protoleptostrophia sp.
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
Pholidostrophia nacrea
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Dipleura dekayi
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp.
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855