Black River intertidal community, Black River Group: Blackriveran, New York
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Bathyuridae
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Bathyurus extans
(Hall 1847)
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Ostracoda
- Leperditicopida
- Leperditiidae
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Leperditia sp.
Rouault 1851
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Anazygidae
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Zygospira sp.
Hall 1862
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Ancistrorhynchidae
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Ancistrorhynchia sp.
(Ulrich and Cooper 1942)
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| originally entered as "Ancistrothyncha sp." | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cyrtodontida
- Cyrtodontidae
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? Cyrtodonta sp.
Billings 1858
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| originally entered as "? Cyrtodona sp." | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New York |
| Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 75.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.4° South, 53.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Middle Ordovician | ||
| Key time interval: | Blackriveran | ||
| Age range of interval: | 457 - 449.8 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Black River | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "M. Ord." | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks "carbonate" | ||
| Environment: | peritidal | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
| Geology comments: "algalaminites (carbonate); thin bedded, mud-cracked; birdseye. intertidal. (BA1) stable shelf" | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:"K.R. Walker, 1973. Strat. and env. sed. of M. Ord. Lack River Grp. in the type area- New York State. NY State Mus. and Sci. Serv. Bull. 419,43. K.R. Walker, 1972. Community ecology of the M. Ord. Black River Group of NY. GSA Bull. Cooper, 1956 (some brachs thrown in)" | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 322 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Sepkoski | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1998-11-20 10:07:18 | Last modified: | 2017-01-08 22:12:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1998-11-20 10:07:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 60987. | K. R. Walker. 1972. Community Ecology of the Middle Ordovician Black River Group of New York State. Geological Society of America Bulletin 83(8):2499-2524 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 42189 | G. A. Cooper. 1956. New Pennsylvanian Brachiopods. Journal of Paleontology 30(3):521-530 [M. Clapham/K. Badyrka ] | |
| 60986 | K. R. Walker. 1973. Stratigraphy and env. sed. of Middle Ordovician Lack River Group in the type area- New York State. N.Y. State Museum and Science Service Bulletin 419:1-43 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen] |