Sample 2 (Cardiff Member, Marcellus Fm.), Locality 11 (Gulf Road), Onondaga Co., (Devonian of the United States)

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

• 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

• All data are original proportions of species in samples. The sums of many of the samples do not equal 1.0 because rare species were deleted prior to analysis.
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae