NYSM Locality 5930 south of Rte. 22 5km east of Comstock (Ordovician of the United States)

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
 Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
 Tarphycerida - Tarphyceratidae
Centrotarphyceras seelyi Whitfield 1886