Where: Seneca County County, New York (42.6° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° S, 24.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sherburne Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: prodelta; micaceous, gray siltstone
•the Sherburne Formation corresponds to a dysaerobic to aerobic
•facies change. The dysaerobic, dark gray upper Geneseo
•Shale grades laterally and vertically into the light gray shale and
•siltstone of the Sherburne Formation. The Sherburne grades
•from siltstone interbedded with shaly partings up into massive siltstone.
•. . . . .
•Sedunentary
•structures within the Sherburne include lenticular bedding,
•low-relief ripples on the upper surfaces of siltier beds, and
•small-scale cross-laminae.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. B. Thompson and C.R. Newton. 1987. Ecological Reinterpretation of the Dysaerobic Leiorhynchus Fauna: Upper Devonian Geneseo Black Shale, Central New York. Palaios 2(3):274-281 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 76100: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 13.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Ponticeras perlatum Hall 1874 ammonite | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Bivalvia | |
Panenka sp. Barrande 1881 clam
Paracardium doris clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Chonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857 |