Locality 18, Little Beards Creek, Kashong and Windom Members, Moscow Formation, (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Livingston County, New York (42.8° N, 77.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.1° S, 45.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• samples not specified as from Kashong or Windom

• 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 9361: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.10.2000, edited by Alycia Stigall

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

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
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer consobrinus, Mucrospirifer mucronatus
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841
x
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
Spinocyrtia granulosa
Spinocyrtia granulosa Conrad 1839
x
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
c
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
Allanella tullius
Allanella tullius Hall 1867
r?
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella vanuxemi
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina hamiltoniae
  - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus carinatus
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
x
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo constricta
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam
x [entered as Paleoneilo constricta]
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Pholadella radiata
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Modiella pygmaea