Sample 76 (Cardiff Member, Marcellus Fm.), Locality 3 (Gates Road quarries), Ono: Givetian, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tentaculita - Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolina fissurella (Hall 1879)
0.863 %-specimens
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida
Goniatitida indet. Hyatt 1884
0.031 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Pterochaenia fragilis
0.031 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Buchiola retrostriata
0.004 %-specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Onondaga
Coordinates: 43.0° North, 76.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.8° South, 23.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Givetian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
*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:Cardiff
Local section:Gates Road quarries
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: sample taken from 1 m from the base of the upper quarry
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: carbonaceous shale
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:All data are original proportions of species in samples. The sums of many of the samples do not equal 1.0 because rare species were deleted prior to analysis. Also found in this sample: undifferentiated orthocones (0.048% of specimens) and wood (0.018% of specimens)
Metadata
Database number:9492
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-11-15 13:18:55 Last modified:2004-04-27 18:49:57
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

808. J. C. Brower and O. B. Nye, Jr. 1991. Quantitative Analysis of Paleocommunities in the Lower Part of the Hamilton Group near Cazenovia, New York. In E. Landing, C. E. Brett (eds.), Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part II 469:37-73 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]