Sample 83 (Cardiff Member, Marcellus Fm.), Locality 3 (Gates Road quarries), Ono (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: Cardiff Member (Marcellus Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• sample taken from 9 m from the base of the upper quarry

• 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 9499: 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: undifferentiated orthocones (0.059% of specimens)
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida -
Goniatitida indet. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Praecardium sp. Barrande 1881 clam
termed Panenka sp. by most workers