Where: Otsego County, New York (42.8° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° S, 23.0° 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 8969: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.09.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam | |
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam | |
Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam | |
Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop | |
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites
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Rhynchonellata | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Allanella tullius Hall 1867 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia sp. Caster 1939 | |
Trilobita | |
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites hamiltoniae tabulate coral | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |