Thayer Peabody Collection A9159 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Otsego County, New York (42.6° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 22.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• siltstone

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 90856: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 19.08.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos indet. Massalongo 1855