Sample 42 (Butternut Member, Skaneateles Fm.), Locality 8 (Pratts Falls quarry), (Devonian of the United States)

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: Butternut Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• sample taken from 2m m above the base of the outcrop

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; sandy shale

• coarse, arenaceous 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 9381: 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.
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus multicostum
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer mucronatus
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Devonochonetes sp.
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
 Productida - Productellidae
Spinulicosta spinulicosta
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea sp.
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Pterochaenia fragilis
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Modiella pygmaea