Valcour shore, Lake Champlain: Chazyan, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plectorthidae
Plectorthis exfoliata (Raymond 1905)
Raymond 1911
recombined as Orthambonites exfoliata
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidae
Hebertella exfoliata Raymond 1905
recombined as Orthambonites exfoliata
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Camerellidae
Camerella varians Billings 1859
Raymond 1911
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Sphenotretidae
Zygospira acutirostris (Hall 1847)
Raymond 1911
recombined as Sphenotreta acutirostris
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Camerella longirostris (Billings 1859)
Raymond 1911
corrected as Camarella longirostris
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Straparollinidae
Holopea hudsoni Raymond 1905
recombined as Straparollina hudsoni
Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia limatula Raymond 1905
Leperditia nana Jones 1858
Raymond 1911
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York
Coordinates: 44.6° North, 73.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.1° South, 54.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2-4
Key time interval:Chazyan
Age range of interval:470.00000 - 457.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chazy Formation:Day Point
Stratigraphy comments: The entire Valcour shore section is Day Point Fm according to Fisher (1968) Geology of the Plattsburgh and Rouses Point, New York-Vermont, quadrangle.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:172187
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-29 04:37:10 Last modified:2024-03-31 19:20:59
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-29 04:37:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15471. P. E. Raymond. 1905. The fauna of the Chazy Limestone. The American Journal of Science 20:353-382 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

44678 G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
53676 P. E. Raymond. 1911. The Brachiopoda and Ostracoda of the Chazyan. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 7:215-259 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]