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
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
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
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Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
Pterinopecten sp. Hall 1883 scallop | |
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
Actinopteria sp., "Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam | |
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
Pholadella sp. Hall 1869 clam | |
Nyassa sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
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Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Trilobita | |
Greenops boothi trilobite |