Summit 27D2 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.6° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 22.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: middle varcus conodont zone, upper Windom Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Primary reference: C. S. Prosser. 1899. Classification and distribution of the Hamilton and Chemung series of central and eastern New York, Part 2. Annual Report of the Regents - New York State Museum, Report 51 2:65-315 [A. Miller/J. Zambito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89962: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 22.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Cardiida -
 Modiomorphida - Carydiidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
"Goniophora hamiltonensis" = Goniomorpha hamiltonensis
"Goniophora hamiltonensis" = Goniomorpha hamiltonensis Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Pterinopecten vertumnus Hall 1883 scallop
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria dekayi" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria dekayi" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
[entered as Nuculoidea corbuliformes]
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites oblongatus Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo muta clam
[entered as Paleoneilo muta]
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo constricta]
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae