Where: Clinton County, New York (44.9° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 51.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sherman Falls limestone Formation (Trenton Group), Shermanian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• See comments on geography. The Sherman Fall ls. belongs to the Trenton group and is Shermanian in age (informations are from Melchin & Legault, 1985, Palynology 9; and from Aravena et al., 1995, J. Hydrol. 173(1-4)).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1952. New Ordovician Cephalopods from Eastern North America. Journal of Paleontology 26(1):24-59 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89051: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 30.04.2009

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