Holland Patent NY North (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.2° N, 75.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 50.2° W)

When: Indian Castle Member (Utica Shale Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified shale

• BAIRD, G. C., AND C. E. BRETT. 2002. Indian Castle Shale: late synorogenic siliciclastic succession in an evolving Middle to Late Ordovician foreland basin, eastern New York State. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 27(1):203-230.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Ruedemann. 1925. The Utica and Lorraine Formations of New York. Part 1: Stratigraphy. . New York State Museum Bulletin 258:1-175 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 204767: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 23.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

• updated taxonomy; Discophycus typicalis is non-organic (Treatise Invert. Paleo. W)
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Megalograptidae
Echinognathus clevelandi Walcott 1882 eurypterid
Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Triarthrus eatoni Hall 1838 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus typicalis Hall 1865 climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
"Glossograptus quadrimucronatus" = Orthograptus quadrimucronatus, Geniculograptus pygmaeus
"Glossograptus quadrimucronatus" = Orthograptus quadrimucronatus Hall 1865 graptolite
Geniculograptus pygmaeus Ruedemann 1925 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Mastigograptidae
Mastigograptus tenuiramosus Walcott 1883 graptolite