Highland Mills - Esopus Sandstone - Erie Cut: Early/Lower Devonian, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Taonurus caudagalli
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Orange
Coordinates: 41.3° North, 74.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° South, 26.8° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1-2
Key time interval:Early/Lower Devonian
Age range of interval:419.20000 - 393.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tristates Formation:Esopus
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet. Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Articulated whole bodies:none
Disassociated major elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:76164
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-11-14 16:55:15 Last modified:2007-11-14 18:55:15
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-14 16:55:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

25816. C. H. Kindle and S.H. Eidman. 1955. Fauna of the Kanouse Sandstone at Highland Mills, New York. Journal of Paleontology 29(1):183-185 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]