Locality 7 (Tanner Road), Limestone "b", Mottville Member, Onondaga Co., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.3° 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: deep subtidal shelf; shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• crinoidal limestone

Preservation: trace

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 8913: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.09.2000

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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 assigned 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
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855