Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 23.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mottville Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• sample taken from lower part of the Mottville at 1 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 9377: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.10.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Hall 1859 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842 |