Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 24.1° 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: 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 8924: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
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Mourlonia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Greenops boothi trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Stereolasma sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral
Amplexiphyllum sp. Stumm 1949 horn coral | |
Aulocystis sp. Schlüter 1885 tabulate coral | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |