Also known as Eighteen Mile Creek

Where: Erie County, New York (42.7° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 26.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Windom Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• "from lower 5 feet of Windom shale"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Reposited in the NYSM

• New York State Museum collection

•collection and preparation methods unclear

Primary reference: L. E. Stover. 1956. Ostracoda from the Windom Shale (Hamilton) of Western New York. Journal of Paleontology 30(5):1092-1142 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94041: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.02.2010

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