Loc. 77. 70-75 feet above water, below falls at the high bridge, Ausable Chasm, Keesville: Trempealeauan, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Ptychoparia minuta
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella prima (Billings 1856)
Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes gibbosus Hall and Whitfield 1872
unclassified
Palaeacmaea typica Hall and Whitfield 1872
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Clinton
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 73.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.7° South, 73.4° 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: 489.2 - 485.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Potsdam Formation:Keeseville
Local section:Ausable Chasm Local bed:70 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
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:74543
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-08-11 17:03:29 Last modified:2023-01-24 15:14:53
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-11 17:03:29
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]