3143, Levenea community I, Onondaga Limestone, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ulster County, New York (41.9° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° S, 21.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• numerous seams of light weathering chert in a medium to dark gray matrix

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 9577: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 11.12.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Levenea sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Pentamerella arata Conrad 1841