Black River protected subtidal community, Black River Group: Blackriveran, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Bathyurus extans (Hall 1847)
3-5 %-volume
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851
15-18 %-volume
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
Stictopora sp. Hall 1847
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
1 %-volume
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Loxoplocus sp. Fischer 1885
    = Lophospiridae indet. Wenz 1938
Wagner 2023
Crinoidea
? Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
originally entered as "? Crinoidea indet."
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., Black River Group"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet. Tectonic setting:passive margin
Geology comments: "limestone, no dessication, thick algalaminites. very shallow subtidal (BA2) stable shelf."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Walker 1972. GSA Bull."
Metadata
Database number:323
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2017-01-08 22:12:41
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:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]