3135, Atrypa-Coelospira-Nucleospira community, Onondaga Limestone, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as AMNH locality 3135

Where: Green County, New York (42.3° N, 73.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° S, 21.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• medium gray, medium grained, somewhat cherty limestone

Preservation: original silica

Reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: H. R. Feldman. 1978. Brachiopods and Community Ecology of the Onondaga Limestone. Ph.D. thesis, Rutgers University 1-203 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9564: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 11.12.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Stropheodontidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842
Megastrophia sp. Caster 1939
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Cupularostrum sp. Sartenaer 1961
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Atribonium halli Fagerstrom 1961
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Elytha fimbriata" = Elita
"Elytha fimbriata" = Elita
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
"Acrospirifer duodenaria" = Patriaspirifer duodenaria
"Acrospirifer duodenaria" = Patriaspirifer duodenaria Hall 1843
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae