Taun mbr 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 Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated, gray shale

• fossiliferous bluish gray Zoophycos-burrowed mudstone

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 94451: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 21.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Megistocrinus sp. Owen and Shumard 1852 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Dolatocrinidae
Dolatocrinus sp. Lyon 1857 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Pseudoatrypa sp. Copper 1973
  - Tropidoleptidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral
Amplexiphyllum sp. Stumm 1949 horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnoptychia sp. Hall 1876 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites hamiltoniae tabulate coral
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855