Where: Madison County, New York (42.8° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° 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 8962: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.09.2000, edited by Alycia Stigall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Bivalvia | |
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Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Pseudaviculopecten sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites
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Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam | |
Trilobita | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |