Locality 14 (Knights Falls Ravine), Tropidoleptus shales, Mottville Member, Madi (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Madison County, New York (42.9° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 23.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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 8833: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha Donald 1905 snail
Paleozygopleura (Loxonema)
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria sp., "Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites Williams 1908 oyster
Ptychopteria (Cornellites)
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Pholadella sp. Hall 1869 clam
 Actinodontida - Nyassidae
Nyassa sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi trilobite