Locality 4, Borodino Landing, Peppermill Gulf bed, Centerfield Member, Ludlowvil (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 24.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Centerfield Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, gray mudstone

• thin laterally persistent fossiliferous bed between dark gray clayshales to gray bioturbated claystones

Primary reference: L. M. Gray. 1991. Paleoecology, origin, and significance of a shell-rich bed in the lowermost part of the Ludlowville Formation (Middle Devonian, central 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 469:93-106 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9370: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.10.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis sp. Schlüter 1885 tabulate coral
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster
P. (Actinopteria) sp. (14), P. (Cornellites) sp. (1)
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
 Actinodontida - Nyassidae
Nyassa sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea indet. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Pseudatrypa sp." = Pseudoatrypa
"Pseudatrypa sp." = Pseudoatrypa Copper 1973
[entered as Pseudoatrypa sp.]
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite