Sterling Valley Creek - Upper Sodus: Telychian, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites minutus
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Helopora fragilis Hall 1851
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
Phaenopora explanata Hall 1852
Phaenopora ensiformis Hall 1852
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica (de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis (Linnaeus 1758)
original and current combination Anomia reticularis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
Stropheodonta corrugata (Conrad 1842)
recombined as Gunnarella corrugata
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis (Wahlenberg 1818)
recombined as Leptaena (Leptaena) rhomboidalis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea emacerata
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Pyrenomoeus cuneatus Hall 1852
Ostracoda - Zygobolbidae
Zygobolba decora
Zygobolba intermedia
Zygobolba robusta
Mastigobolbina incipiens
Mastigobolbina retifera
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene niagarensis Hall 1843
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Oswego
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 76.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.6° South, 45.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
Stage:Telychian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Telychian
Age range of interval:438.50000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Clinton Formation:Sodus Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Green shale with limestone layers. Limestone crystalline. Some entirely composed of Coelospira
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:82546
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-07-28 14:33:04 Last modified:2008-07-28 17:33:04
Access level:the public Released:2008-07-28 14:33:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]