Heliophyllum facies (V), Leroy bioherm, Onondaga Limestone, Genesee Co., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Genesee County, New York (43.0° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 25.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Edgecliff Member (Onondaga Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; shelly/skeletal packstone

• sparse to packed biomicrudite

Primary reference: R. Z. Poore. 1969. The LeRoy Bioherm: Onondaga Limestone (Middle Devonian) western New York. M.S. thesis, Brown University 1-69 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9531: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 11.12.2000

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Romnigeria sp.
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora sp., Thamnopora sp.
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
common
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
present
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis sp.
Aulocystis sp. Schlüter 1885 tabulate coral
common
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Synaptophyllum sp.
Synaptophyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral
common
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp.
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
abundant
 Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
Acinophyllum sp., Cylindrophyllum sp.
Acinophyllum sp. McLaren 1959 horn coral
abundant
Cylindrophyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral
questionable identification