Where: Madison County, New York (42.8° 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 8961: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.09.2000, edited by Alycia Stigall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Bivalvia | |
Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites
| |
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
"Camarotoechia sappho" = Sapphicorhynchus sappho
"Camarotoechia sappho" = Sapphicorhynchus sappho Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Anthozoa | |
Heterophrentis sp. Billings 1875 horn coral | |
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |