Locality 35 (Pierstown), Camarotoechia sandstones, Mottville Member, Otsego Co., (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Otsego County, New York (42.8° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 22.8° 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 8973: 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
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Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha concentrica
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp.
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Paraspirifer sp.
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
Allanella tullius
  - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus sp.