Locality 11 (Rainbow Creek), Stereolasma shales, Mottville Member, Onondaga Co., (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.1° 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

• gray fossiliferous, 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 8930: 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
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha Donald 1905 snail
Paleozygopleura (Loxonema)
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys
"Mourlonia itys" = Euryzone itys Hall 1876 snail
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral