Thayer Peabody Collection A9076 (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Sherburne-4

Where: New York (42.7° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° S, 23.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: disparilis conodont zone, Fir Tree Member (Geneseo Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, silty shale

• dark gray and gray silty shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Charles Thayer in 1968-1970; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. J. Zambito. 2008. Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology. [A. Miller/J. Zambito/J. Zambito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96356: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 03.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysioidea arcuata clam
[entered as Grammysiodea arcuata]
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
Leptodesma spinigerum Conrad 1842 oyster
"Leiopteria laevis" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
"Vertumnia reversa" = Pterinopecten (Vertumnia)
"Vertumnia reversa" = Pterinopecten (Vertumnia) scallop
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Rhynchonellata
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Rhynchonellida - Platyterorhynchidae
"Camarotoechia mesacostales" = Katabuporhynchus mesacostalis
"Camarotoechia mesacostales" = Katabuporhynchus mesacostalis Hall 1843
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae