Where: Madison County, New York (42.9° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 23.4° 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: shoreface; bioturbated, gray, calcareous sandstone
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 8959: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Gastropoda | |
Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites, Actinopteria sp.
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
Pholadella sp. Hall 1869 clam | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites hamiltoniae tabulate coral | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |