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
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 | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Levenea sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931 | |
Pentamerella arata Conrad 1841 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 |