Sample 75 (Chittenango Member, Marcellus Formation), Locality 3 (Gates Road quar (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (43.0° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 23.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• sample taken from 8 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 9491: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 15.11.2000

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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 found in this sample: wood (0.667% of specimens)
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida -
Goniatitida indet. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Praecardium sp. Barrande 1881 clam
termed Panenka sp. by most workers