Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 24.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Cardiff Member (Marcellus Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• sample taken from 3 m above the base of the outcrop
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray shale
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: J. C. Brower and O. B. Nye, Jr. 1991. Quantitative Analysis of Paleocommunities in the Lower Part of the Hamilton Group near Cazenovia, 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 469:37-73 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9374: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.10.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 |