PBDB Collection

NYSM locality TRQ-32, Top of Wolfville Mbr. ( of the United States)

Also known as Tri States Quarry, Whitehall, Washington Co.

Where: Washington County, New York (43.5° N, 73.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° S, 67.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wolf Hollow Member (Tribes Hill Formation), Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)

• "uppermost Wolf Hollow Member, upper Tribes Hill Formation; top surface" (Kröger & Landing, 2007)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; intraclastic, shelly/skeletal grainstone and stromatolitic bindstone

• The Wolf Hollow member is "interpreted as a latest highstand systems tract. These intervals were earlier thought to be an intertidal facies (Braun and Friedman, 1969), but Landing et al. (1996) demonstrated that the environment was wave-dominated and somewhat deeper, with frequent storm beds that indicate episodically high-energy deposition. Thus, the peaks in cephalopod abundance and diversity discussed below indicate shallow, but not intertidal environments and a more restricted marine facies than that of the uppermost Sprakers, Van Wie, and lower Wolf Hollow members." (Kröger & Landing, 2007)

• "massive, cliff-forming [...carbonates...] with its characteristic thrombolites in an echinoderm-intraclast matrix" (Kröger & Landing, 2007);

•"identifiable trilobites, brachiopods, and ellesmeroceratoids were recovered

•from inter-thrombolite echinoderm grainstones" (Landing et al., 2003)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the NYSM

Primary reference: E. Landing, S. R. Westrop, and L. Aller Hernick. 2003. Uppermost Cambrian-Lower Ordovician Faunas and Laurentian Platform Sequence Stratigraphy, Eastern New York and Vermont. Journal of Paleontology 77(1):78-98 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87524: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 18.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
Euomphalina - Ophiletidae	Ophiletidae indet. Ophiletidae indet. Knight 1956 snail
Cephalopoda
Ellesmerocerida - Ellesmeroceratidae	Annoceras costatum, Eorudolfoceras sp. Annoceras costatum Flower 1964 Eorudolfoceras sp. Kröger and Landing 2007
Trilobita
Proetida - Hystricuridae	Hystricurus sp. Hystricurus sp. Raymond 1913 trilobite NYSM 16818 (cranidium), 16819 (pygidium), 16820 (cranidium)
Asaphida - Nileidae	Symphysurina myopia n. sp. Symphysurina myopia n. sp. Westrop and in Landing et al 2003 trilobite NYSM 15241 (paratype, cranidium), 16821 (paratype, nearly complete exoskeleton), 16822 (holotype, cranidium),16823, 16824 (paratypes, cranidia), 16825-16827 (paratypes, pygidia)
Conodonta
Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae	Laurentoscandodus triangularis Laurentoscandodus triangularis Furnish 1938 conodont subsymmetrical drepanodiforms; 1 kg of of acid-disaggregated sample
Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae	Semiacontiodus iowensis Semiacontiodus iowensis Fürnish 1938 conodont 3 kg of acontiodiforms and 1 kg of scandodiforms obtained from acid-disaggregated sample
Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae	Variabiloconus bassleri Variabiloconus bassleri Furnish 1938 conodont 1 kg each of acontiodiforms and scandodiforms obtained from acid-disaggregated sample