Limerick Road bed, Canandaigua Lake Valley, Jaycox Member, Ontario Co., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ontario County, New York (42.8° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 24.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; gray, calcareous siltstone

• medium gray calcareous siltstone

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 8998: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.09.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• This list is a composite from the four localities listed above.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Reptariidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras ? sp. Foerste 1932
nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Retispira leda Hall 1859 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Mourlonia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855