SM1A S Onondaga Valley Aea nr Rt 20 (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Skaneateles Formation, Motville member. Jacknife Ravine , SW of Marcellus, Onondaga Co. (Marcellus quad)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (43.0° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° S, 23.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Motville Member (Skaneateles Formation), Middle Devonian (393.3 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous, muddy lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: L. C. Ivany, C. E. Brett, H. L. B. Wall, P. D. Wall, and J. C. Handley. 2009. Relative taxonomic and ecological stability in Devonian marine faunas of New York State: a test of coordinated stasis. Paleobiology 35(4):499-524 [B. Deline/B. Deline/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91225: authorized by Brad Deline, entered by Brad Deline on 13.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia indenta Conrad 1842 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Eoschuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata
"Eoschuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata Hall 1843
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"cf. Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"cf. Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
cf. Greenops boothi trilobite
or G. graba
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis sp. Schlüter 1885 tabulate coral