Where: Cayuga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 24.1° 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
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 8923: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |