A38. South end of Valcour Island, Valcour Fm.: Chazyan, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Paleocystites tenuiradiatus
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Stylaraea parva Lambe 1899
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella vulgaris Raymond 1911
recombined as Mimella vulgaris
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Orthidium lamellosum (Raymond 1905)
recombined as Ptychopleurella lamellosa
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Camarotoechia plena (Hall 1847)
recombined as Rostricellula plena
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Rafinesquina incrassata (Hall 1847)
recombined as Dactylogonia incrassata
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis fabaformis Raymond 1905
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania sulcatina (Emmons 1842)
original and current combination Bellerophon sulcatinus
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Maclurites magnus (Le Sueur 1818)
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Raphistomatidae
Raphistoma stamineum Hall 1847
Ostracoda - Hollinocopida - Eurychilinidae
Eurychilina latimarginata (Raymond 1905)
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia limatula Raymond 1905
Leperditia canadensis Jones 1858
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Lonchodomas chaziensis Shaw 1968
Shaw 1968
see Shaw (1968, p. 34)
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphus alpha
Isotelus harrisi Raymond 1905
Trilobita - Lichida - Lichidae
Amphilichas minganensis (Billings 1865)
Trilobita - Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus globosus Billings 1859
recombined as Stenopareia globosus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Clinton
Coordinates: 44.6° North, 73.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.1° South, 54.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue "limestone"
Lithology description: Coarse-grained, dark-blue limestone.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:172239
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-31 04:10:18 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:59
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-31 04:10:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15149. P. E. Raymond. 1906. The Chazy Formation and its fauna. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 3(4):498-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

23704 F.C. Shaw. 1968. Early Middle Ordovician (Chazy) trilobites of New York. New York State Museum and Science Service Memoir 17:1-163 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]