Thayer Peabody Collection A9169a (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Mt. Vision-8

Where: New York (42.5° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 22.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• condensed dark 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 96386: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 03.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Conularia sp. jellyfish
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha mytiloides Conrad 1841 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
"Trepospira rotalia" = Denayella rotalia
"Trepospira rotalia" = Denayella rotalia Hall 1862 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata Conrad 1842 snail
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Trematidae
Schizocrania indet. Hall and Whitfield 1875
 Lingulida - Discinidae
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula complanata Williams 1882
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Cranaena sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Eumetabolotoechia multicostatum" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata
"Eumetabolotoechia multicostatum" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata Hall 1860
[entered as Eumetabolatoechia multicostatum]
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
"Sinochonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Sinochonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily