Where: Ontario County, New York (42.8° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° S, 24.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: middle varcus conodont zone, Windom Shale Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; burrowed, gray mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• Organisms present with relative abundance. Numerical values standardized to 6 kg sample size.

Primary reference: G. C. Baird and C. E. Brett. 1983. Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of Western New York. Journal of Paleontology 57(3):417-446 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96211: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 21.05.2010

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