3134, Atrypa-Megakozlowskiella community, Onondaga Limestone, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Albany County, New York (42.6° N, 73.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° 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; shelly/skeletal, gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• limestone, medium grained, medium bedded, light to medium gray, and coarsely crinoidal in places, some blue-gray chert with dark weathering common in the upper 5 feet of the unit

Preservation: replaced with silica

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 9575: 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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Orthotetacidae indet.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
Megastrophia sp.
Megastrophia sp. Caster 1939
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea sp.
Levenea sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria multistriata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
Megakozlowskiella raricosta
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Pentagonia unisulcata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758