3138B, Atrypa community, Onondaga Limestone, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as AMNH locality 3138B

Where: Ulster County, New York (42.1° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 21.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; gray limestone and chert

• limestone, medium grained, massive, light gray with light gray weathering chert seams

Preservation: replaced with 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 9567: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 11.12.2000

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae