Thayer Peabody Collection A9169b (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Mt. Vision-8

Where: New York (42.5° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 23.0° 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, condensed, gray, silty shale

• condensed 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 96387: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 03.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
"Trepospira rotalia" = Denayella rotalia
"Trepospira rotalia" = Denayella rotalia Hall 1862 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo emarginata Conrad 1841 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo emarginata]
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo constricta]
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysioidea arcuata clam
[entered as Grammysiodea arcuata]
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
 Cardiida -
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Trigoniida - Eoschizodidae
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma spinigerum Conrad 1842 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
"Sinochonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Sinochonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820