Sample 8 (Mottville Member, Skaneateles Fm.), Locality 10 (Pompey Center), Onond (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 23.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mottville Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• sample taken from 0.1 m from the base of the outcrop

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore

• 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 9500: 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.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
  - Tropidoleptidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Glossites sp. Hall 1885 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites oblongatus Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae