Loc. 76a. Potsdam Sandstone, Hoyts Quarry, 4 miles west of Saratoga Springs: Trempealeauan, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella (Lingulepis) acuminata (Conrad 1839)
Trilobita - Asaphida - Dikelocephalidae
Dicellocephalus hartti (Walcott 1879)
recombined as Prosaukia hartii
Trilobita - Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
Ptychaspis speciosus
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
Lonchocephalus calciferus
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Agraulidae
Agraulos saratogensis
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Saratoga
Coordinates: 43.1° North, 73.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.3° South, 75.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cambrian Epoch:Furongian
10 m.y. bin:Cambrian 5
Key time interval:Trempealeauan
Age range of interval:489.20000 - 485.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Potsdam Formation:Keeseville
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:74541
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-08-11 16:58:10 Last modified:2023-01-24 15:15:34
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-11 16:58:10
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
16411. C. D. Walcott. 1912. Cambrian geology and paleontology. II. New York Potsdam Hoyt fauna. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 57(9):263-289 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]