Where: Madison County, New York (42.9° N, 75.5° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 31.3° S, 43.6° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mottville Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.9 - 382.3 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 8963: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral | |
Favosites hamiltoniae tabulate coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam | |
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon
"Macrodon sp." = Parallelodon Meek and Worthen 1866 clam | |
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites
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"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951 | |
Trilobita | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |