Near Albany (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Albany County, New York (42.7° N, 73.8° W: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 52.5° W)

When: Rysedorf Formation, Trentonian (457.3 - 449.6 Ma)

• Different portions of conglomerate dated differently. This is estimated to be early Trentonian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: conglomerate and gray limestone

• Gray crystalline limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 127:1-1245 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164925: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
"? Cyclospira longa n. sp." = Idiospira longa
"? Cyclospira longa n. sp." = Idiospira longa Cooper 1956
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania trentonensis
Christiania trentonensis Ruedemann 1909
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Bilobia pisum
Bilobia pisum Ruedemann 1901
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena ordovicica" = Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica, Macrocoelia ruedemanni
"Leptaena ordovicica" = Leptaena (Leptaena) ordovicica Cooper 1956