Sample 59 (Union Springs Member, Marcellus Formation), Locality 1 (Nedrow), Onon (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (43.0° N, 76.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 23.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Union Springs Member (Marcellus Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• sample taken from 0.9 m above the base of the outcrop

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshorecarbonaceous

• carbonaceous 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 9478: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 15.11.2000

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. Also present in this sample: undifferentiated orthocones (0.001% of specimens) and wood (0.001% of specimens)
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Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolina fissurella
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus limitare
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Pterochaenia fragilis, Lunulacardium (Lunulacardium) curtum
Lunulacardium (Lunulacardium) curtum Hall 1870 clam
Lunulacardium (Lunulacardium) curtum (Hall)