Costispirifer and Rensselaria communities, Oriskany Sandstone: Pragian, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
crinoids
Gastropoda - Archaeogastropoda
Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925
Platycerids
Bivalvia - Nuculida
Nuculoida indet. Dall 1889
corrected as Nuculida
nuculoid bivalves
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria sp. Hall 1884
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Eatoniidae
Costellirostra sp.
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida
Straelenia sp.
nomen dubium belonging to Rhynchonellida
originally entered as "Straelena sp."
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Leptocoelia sp.
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Cupularostrum sp. Sartenaer 1961
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
Costispirifer sp. Copper 1942
Acrospirifer sp. Wedekind 1926
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Discomyorthis sp. Johnson 1970
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Centronellidae
Rensselaeria sp.
originally entered as "Rensselaria sp."
Centronella sp. Billings 1859
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Leptostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Hipparionix sp. King
originally entered as "Hipparionyx sp."
Tentaculitida
Tentaculitida indet. Ljaschenko 1955
tentaculites
Anthozoa
Tabulata indet. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)
tabulate corals
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York
Coordinates: 41.4° North, 75.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.3° South, 30.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Pragian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1
*Local age/stage:Siegenian
Key time interval:Pragian
Age range of interval:410.80000 - 407.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oriskany Sandstone
Stratigraphy comments: "mid L. Dev (Siegenian)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,tool marks sandstone
Secondary lithology: conglomerate
Environment:shoreface
Geology comments: "fine to coarse grained ss and congl.; x-beds, rippling, scour and fill. nearshore (upper shoreface to lower shoreface) BA3?"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Smith, 1982"
Metadata
Database number:600
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-06 11:10:40 Last modified:2017-01-07 20:17:32
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-06 11:10:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

60918. D. A. Smith. 1982. Paleoecology of the Oriskany Sandstone and equivalents of the Appalachian Basin. MS Thesis, University of Chicago 1-101 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/J. Ju]