Sample 12 (Mottville Member, Skaneateles Fm.), Locality 10 (Pompey Center), Onon (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 0.8 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 9504: 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.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
"Pseudatrypa cf. devoniana" = Pseudoatrypa devoniana
"Pseudatrypa cf. devoniana" = Pseudoatrypa devoniana Webster 1921
[entered as Pseudoatrypa devoniana]
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites oblongatus Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
"Cornellites fasciculata" = Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata Goldfuss 1836 oyster
 Ostreida -
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea Gray 1847 oyster
Pterinopecten, Pseudoaviculopecten and similar forms
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Glossites sp. Hall 1885 clam
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata Conrad 1842 snail