Sample 40 (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 22.5 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 9611: 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 were deleted prior to analysis.
unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
Bivalvia
 Ostreida -
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea
"Pteriacea indet." = Pterioidea Gray 1847 oyster
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Cornellites fasciculata" = Ptychopteria (Cornellites) fasciculata Goldfuss 1836 oyster
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Glossites sp. Hall 1885 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam
Grammysia sp. de Verneuil 1847 clam
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata Conrad 1842 snail