Sample 68 (Cherry Valley Member, Marcellus Fm.), Locality 4 (Sweet Road), Ononda (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (43.0° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 23.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cherry Valley Member (Marcellus Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• sample taken from the nodular limestone (between two gray limestones) at 0.36 m above the base of the outcrop

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray limestone

• nodular limestone

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 9380: 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.
unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
Coleolus
  - Coleolidae
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Agoniatitidae
"Agoniatites vanuxemi" = Agoniatites expansus
"Agoniatites vanuxemi" = Agoniatites expansus Vanuxem 1842 ammonite
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes ? lineatus" = Hallinetes lineatus
"Chonetes ? lineatus" = Hallinetes lineatus Conrad 1839
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae