Where: Genesee County, New York (42.9° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 25.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Windom Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• collection not attributed to a particular formation at this locality, although the following formations are present: Wanakah (Ludlowville Fm.); Tichenor, Jaycox, Menteth, Kashong, and Windom (all of Moscow Fm.)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; bioturbated, pyritic, gray, calcareous mudstone

Preservation: trace, concretion, original calcite, 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 9356: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.10.2000, edited by Alycia Stigall

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