Where: Washington County, New York (43.8° N, 73.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° S, 61.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oepikodus communis - Reuterodontus andinus conodont zone, Sciota Member (Fort Cassin Formation), Cassinian (482.3 - 470.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, calcareous, carbonaceous wackestone
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with calcite
Collected by R. H. Flower in the 1940s
Primary reference: B. Kröger and E. Landing. 2009. Cephalopods and Paleoenvironments of the Fort Cassin Formation (Upper Lower Ordovician), eastern New York and adjacent Vermont. Journal of Paleontology 83(5):664-693 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90195: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 13.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Protocycloceras lamarcki Billings 1859 | |
Centrotarphyceras seelyi Whitfield 1886 |