3131B, Atrypa-Megakozlowskiella community, Onondaga Limestone, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as AMNH locality 3131B

Where: Otsego County, New York (42.6° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° S, 22.4° 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 limestone and chert

• limestone, medium to fine grained, medium bedded, light gray with numerous 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 9573: 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 - Chonetidae
"Chonetes lineata" = Hallinetes lineatus
"Chonetes lineata" = Hallinetes lineatus Conrad 1839
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842
Megastrophia sp. Caster 1939
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
"Acrospirifer duodenaria" = Patriaspirifer duodenaria
"Acrospirifer duodenaria" = Patriaspirifer duodenaria Hall 1843
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Pentamerella arata Conrad 1841
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758