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 | |
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Heterophrentis sp. Billings 1875 horn coral | |
Amplexiphyllum sp. Stumm 1949 horn coral | |
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 | |
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951 | |
"Eumetabolotoechia multicosta" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata
"Eumetabolotoechia multicosta" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata Hall 1860 | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855 |