Nuculoid-modiolopsid community, Sodus Shale: Llandovery, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora sp. Hall 1851
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Phaenopora sp. Hall 1851
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
originally entered as "Stropheodonta sp."
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira sp. Hall 1863
Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Bivalvia - Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852
3 species
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Orthodesma sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea sp. Goldfuss 1832
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Holopeidae
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Zygobolba sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923
5 species
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 75.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.7° South, 93.3° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Llandovery
10 m.y. bin: Silurian 1
*Period:Early/Lower Silurian
Key time interval: Llandovery Zone:  Cycle IV
Age range of interval: 443.8 - 433.4 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sodus Shale
Stratigraphy comments: "lower Sil. cycle IV. upper Lland."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "shale. BA1"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Ziegler et al. 1971 unpublished. Gillette 1947."
Metadata
Database number:449
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-03-25 11:08:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-25 11:08:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

27610. T. Gillette. 1947. The Clinton of Western and Central New York. New York State Museum Bulletin (341) [L. Ivany/P. Wall]

Secondary references:

61474 A. M. Ziegler. 1971. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Ju]