Valcour Island, Lake Champlain, Valcour Formation: Chazyan, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomerops canadensis (Billings 1859)
Raymond 1906
Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Endoceratidae
Vaginoceras oppletum Ruedemann 1906
Ruedemann 1906
Endoceras hudsoni Ruedemann 1906
Ruedemann 1906
Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Valcouroceratidae
Cameroceras tenuiseptum (Ruedemann 1906)
Ruedemann 1906
recombined as Valcouroceras tenuiseptum
Cephalopoda - Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Gonioceras chaziense Ruedemann 1906
Flower 1957
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras lativentrum
Ruedemann 1906
Rostroconchia - Conocardiida - Bransoniidae
Conocardium beecheri Raymond 1905
recombined as Pojetaconcha beecheri
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta peracuta Raymond 1905
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Clionychia montrealensis (Billings 1859)
recombined as Cleionychia montrealensis
Ambonychia curvata Raymond 1905
recombined as Ambonychiopsis curvata
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis exanimis Raymond 1916
Modiolopsis fabaformis Raymond 1905
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Hebertella bellarugosa (Conrad 1843)
Raymond 1911
recombined as Glyptorthis bellarugosa
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Camarotoechia plena (Hall 1847)
Raymond 1911
recombined as Rostricellula plena
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Camerella longirostris (Billings 1859)
Raymond 1911
corrected as Camarella longirostris
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Glyptomenidae
Rafinesquina distans Raymond 1906
Raymond 1911
recombined as Glyptomena distans
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingula columba Raymond 1905
Raymond 1911
recombined as Lingulella columba
Glossina belli (Billings 1859)
Raymond 1911
recombined as Palaeoglossa belli
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora compacta
Raymond 1906
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York
Coordinates: 44.6° North, 73.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.1° South, 54.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2-4
Key time interval:Chazyan
Age range of interval:470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chazy Formation:Valcour
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "upper Chazy", in Raymond (1916)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: The mounds contain stromatoporoids, bryozoans, corals and sponges.
Metadata
Database number:171705
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-17 02:07:38 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:59
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-17 02:07:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55816. P. E. Raymond. 1916. The Pelecypoda of the Chazy Formation. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 328:325-343 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]

Secondary references:

56037 R. H. Flower. 1957. The Ordovician Development of the Actinoceratida, with notes on Actinoceroid Morphology and Ordovician Stratigraphy. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 2:1-59 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]
15149 P. E. Raymond. 1906. The Chazy Formation and its fauna. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 3(4):498-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
53676 P. E. Raymond. 1911. The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazyan. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 7:215-259 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
113711% R. Ruedemann. 1906. Cephalopoda of the Beekmantown and Chazy formations of the Champlain Basin. Bulletin of the New York State Museum, Paleontology 14:389-611 [P. Wagner/K. Koverman/M. Uhen]