Thayer Peabody Collection A9149c (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as South Otselic-5

Where: New York (42.7° N, 75.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 23.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: hermanni conodont zone, Geneseo Formation (Genesee Group), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• unnamed member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray siltstone

• gray silt

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 96373: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 03.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Rhynchonellida - Platyterorhynchidae
"Camarotoechia mesacostales" = Katabuporhynchus mesacostalis
"Camarotoechia mesacostales" = Katabuporhynchus mesacostalis Hall 1843
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma spinigerum Conrad 1842 oyster
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam