Locality 21, Fall Brook , Kashong and Windom Members, Moscow Formation, Livingst (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Livingston County, New York (42.8° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 25.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• samples not specified as from Kashong or Windom Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• soft, medium gray, slightly calcareous, siliciclastic mudstones, geographically widespread beds of carbonate or pyritic concretions and fossil layers occur at many levels

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 9358: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.10.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Relative abundance symbols listed in comments field are as follows: a = abundant, 10s to 100s of specimens; c = commonly found, 10s of specimens; x = present, fewer than 10 specimens; r = rare, usually only one specimen; ? = identification questionable
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
x
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
"Pholidops sp." = Craniops
"Pholidops sp." = Craniops Hall 1859
x
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
x
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
a
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Pseudatrypa devoniana" = Pseudoatrypa devoniana
"Pseudatrypa devoniana" = Pseudoatrypa devoniana Webster 1921
x [entered as Pseudoatrypa devoniana]
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
x [entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam
x [entered as Paleoneilo constricta]
Palaeoneilo fecunda Hall 1862 clam
x [entered as Paleoneilo fecunda]
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae