Where: Oneida County, New York (42.9° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 23.2° 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 8967: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Bivalvia | |
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884 oyster | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam | |
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam | |
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Trilobita | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |