Locality 30 (Plainfield Center), Camarotoechia sandstones, Mottville Member, Ots (Devonian of the United States)

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

• bioturbated, ripplemarked, crossbedded, fine, bluish-gray, brown-weathering calcareous sandstone containing coquinites of camarotoechia and allanella tullius

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

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Taxonomic list

• The relative abundance of each fossil taxon was established in the field by estimating the number of specimens observed in one hour from each richly fossiliferous horizon. The abundance of each taxon was then assigned a code number as follows: (1) 1 to 3 specimens, (2) 4 to 12 specimens, (3) 13 to 50 specimens, (4) 50 to 200 specimens, (5) 200 to 800 specimens, (6)over 800 specimens
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
 Cardiida -
Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae
"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites
"Ptychopteria (Cornellites) sp." = Cornellites Williams 1908 oyster
Ptychopteria (Cornellites)
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites hamiltoniae tabulate coral
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855