FB bed taxon list (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.8° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 24.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: middle varcus zone, Taunton (Fall Brook Bed) Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: C. E. Brett and G. C. Baird. 1994. Depositional sequences, cycles, and foreland basin dynamics in the late middle Devonian (Givetian) of the Genesee Valley and western Finger Lakes region. New York State Geological Association Fieldtrip Guidebook, 66th annual meeting [A. Miller/J. Zambito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94450: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 21.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Heterophrentis sp. Billings 1875 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Amplexiphyllum sp. Stumm 1949 horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Eumetabolotoechia multicosta" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata
"Eumetabolotoechia multicosta" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata Hall 1860
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855