Willow Grove Creek, loc. E (Py-14) (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Yates County, New York (42.6° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° S, 24.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Crosby Sandstone at top of Penn Yan Shale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous siltstone

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 136130: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras arcuatum House 1965 ammonite