Pinnacle Road, Albany Co.: Givetian, New York
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Tentaculita
- Styliolinida
- Styliolinidae
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Styliolina fissurella
(Hall 1879)
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Leiorhynchidae
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Leiorhynchus limitare
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
- Centroceratidae
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Centroceras marcellense
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Leiopteria laevis
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| spelled with current rank as Leptodesma (Leiopteria) | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New York | County: | Albany |
| Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 74.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.5° South, 22.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Middle Devonian |
| Stage: | Givetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 3 |
| *Period: | Middle Devonian | *Local age/stage: | Erian |
| Key time interval: | Givetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Marcellus | Member: | Bakoven Shale |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pyritic,black carbonaceous "shale" | ||
| Lithology description: dark gray to black carbonaceous, fissile shale which weathers to gray with the yellowish-brownish tint of iron disulfide | |||
| Environment: | offshore | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 9470 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-11-08 05:57:23 | Last modified: | 2020-01-14 12:31:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-08 05:57:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 811. | E. V. Storm. 1985. A study of a diminutive fauna from the Marcellus Formation (Middle Devonian-Erian) from sites in Albany County, New York, and Sussex County, New Jersey. 1-27 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen] |