Mytilarea-Rusophycus community, Joslin Hill Fm.: Wenlock, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Trimerus sp. Green 1832
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina
    = Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896
Wagner 2023
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869
originally entered as "Mytilarea sp."
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestrellina sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Stenolaemata - Phylloporinidae
Chasmatopora sp. Eichwald 1860
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa sp. Ulrich 1893
originally entered as "Edridotrypa sp."
Tentaculitida
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955
tentaculitid
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
rhynchonellid - originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Stegerhynchus sp. (Foerste 1909)
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 75.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.0° South, 42.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Wenlock
10 m.y. bin: Silurian 2
Key time interval: Wenlock Zone:  Cycle VII
Age range of interval: 433.4 - 427.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Joslin Hill
Stratigraphy comments: "Cycle VII"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "dolomitic ss with sh layers."
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Taxonomic list comments:"Ziegler et al. 1971, unpublished. Zenger, 1971"
Metadata
Database number:536
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, P. Wagner
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-01-12 11:19:06 Last modified:2017-01-28 17:46:08
Access level:the public Released:1999-01-12 11:19:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

61273. D. H. Zenger. 1971. Uppermost Clinton (Middle Silurian) stratigraphy and petrology, east-central New York. University of the State of New York (417) [M. Uhen/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
61474 A. M. Ziegler. 1971. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Ju]