Where: Livingston County, New York (42.9° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 25.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Levanna Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• samples from the upper part of the Levanna Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; pyritic, shelly/skeletal, black, gray shale

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: C. E. Brett, V. B. Dick, and G. C. Baird. 1991. Comparative Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Middle Devonian Dark Gray and Black Shale Facies from Western New York. In E. Landing, C. E. Brett (eds.), Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part II 469:5-36 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9352: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 23.10.2000

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