3126, Amphigenia community, Onondaga limestone, NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Onondaga County, New York (43.0° N, 76.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° S, 23.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; graded, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy limestone and sandstone

• 1 foot of sandstone, limy, coarse grained, friable; above sandstone 14.5 feet of limestone, sandy and coarse grained grading into limestone, medium to coarse grained, massive, light gray crystalline biostomal with crinoid debris

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 9579: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 11.12.2000

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Centronellidae
Amphigenia sp.