Abbey Gulf, loc. 21 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ontario County, New York (42.8° N, 77.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° S, 25.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis falsiovalis conodont zone, Penn Yan Formation (Genesee Group), Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• limestone concretions in shale

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 136082: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Acanthoclymeniidae
Ponticeras perlatum Hall 1874 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras cf. uniangulare Conrad 1842 ammonite