Barren Shale Interval, Hills Gulch, Jaycox Member, Genesee Co., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Genesee County, New York (43.0° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 25.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jaycox Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; gray, silty shale

• silty shale

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. M. Mayer. 1989. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. 1-121 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8981: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.09.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855