Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° 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 8929: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
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Bivalvia | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Anthozoa | |
Aulocystis sp. Schlüter 1885 tabulate coral | |
Stereolasma sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral
Amplexiphyllum sp. Stumm 1949 horn coral |