Tinker Falls (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Cortland County, New York (42.8° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 23.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Polygnathus varcus conodont zone, West Brook Member (Tully Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• within the Moravia Bed, approximately 1.47 m above the base of the West Brook Member, in Bed G; Pharciceras zone MD III-A

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: M. R. House and W. T. Kirchgasser. 2008. Late Devonian goniatites (Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea) from New York State. Bulletins of American Paleontology 374:1-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135988: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.11.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Pharciceratidae
Pharciceras amplexum Hall 1886 ammonite