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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Pustulatia pustulosa Hall 1860 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites, "Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria), Actinopteria sp.
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam | |
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Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
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"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |