Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 23.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Delphi Station Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• sample taken from 21.3 m above the base of the member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; sandstone
Collection methods: bulk
Primary reference: J. C. Brower and O. B. Nye, Jr. 1991. Quantitative Analysis of Paleocommunities in the Lower Part of the Hamilton Group near Cazenovia, New York. In E. Landing, C. E. Brett (eds.), Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part II 469:37-73 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9608: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 16.11.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839 | |
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spinocyrtia granulosa Conrad 1839 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nyassa arguta clam | |
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam | |
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam | |
"Cornellites fasciculata" = Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata, Actinopteria boydi
"Cornellites fasciculata" = Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata Goldfuss 1836 oyster
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster |