Thayer Peabody Collection A9056 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Otsego County, New York (42.5° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 23.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: hermanni conodont zone, unnamed Member (Geneseo Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray, silty shale

• light gray silty shale

Collected by Charles Thayer in 1968-1970; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. J. Zambito. 2008. Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology. [A. Miller/J. Zambito/J. Zambito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89980: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 23.06.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora indet. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae