Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.2° 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: 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 8927: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951 | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Gastropoda | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
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Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Trilobita | |
Proetus sp. Steininger 1831 trilobite | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Amplexiphyllum sp. Stumm 1949 horn coral
Stereolasma sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral | |
Aulocystis sp. Schlüter 1885 tabulate coral |