Sample 37 (Delphi Station), Locality 10 (Pompey Center), Skaneateles Fm., Ononda (Devonian of the United States)

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

• 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

• All data are original proportions of species in samples. The sums of many of the samples do not equal 1.0 because rare species wer deleted prior to analysis.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Bivalvia
 Actinodontida - Nyassidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Cornellites fasciculata" = Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata Goldfuss 1836 oyster
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster