Middleville. Dark Compact Limestone Layer: Katian, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Pterothecidae
Carinaropsis carinata n. gen., n. sp. (Hall 1847)
original and current combination Carinaropsis carinatus
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Bellerophon bilobatus Emmons 1842
replaced by Sinuites cancellatus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Herkimer
Coordinates: 43.1° North, 75.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.6° South, 50.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Katian Conodont zone: Belodina confluens
Age range of interval:453.00000 - 445.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Trenton Formation:Denley Member:Glendale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Metadata
Database number:182627
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2016-11-14 14:27:56 Last modified:2016-11-14 14:27:56
Access level:the public Released:2016-11-14 14:27:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11619. J. Hall. 1847. Containing descriptions of the organic remains of the lower division of the New York system (equivalent of the Lower Silurian rocks of Europe). Paleontology of New York 1:1-338 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]