Whetstone Brook, loc. 42 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ontario County, New York (42.8° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° S, 25.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis punctata conodont zone, Cashaqua Formation (Sonyea Group), Middle Frasnian (382.4 - 379.5 Ma)

• bed 42/5

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• shale with limestone concretions

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 136397: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2012, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras uniangulare Conrad 1842 ammonite
subsp. obesum
 Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Manticoceras sinuosum Hall 1843 ammonite
subsp. clausium
 Agoniatitida - Acanthoclymeniidae
Prochorites alveolatus Glenister 1958 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae
Protocalyptraea marshalli n. gen. n. sp.1
Protocalyptraea marshalli n. gen. n. sp.1 Clarke 1894 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria ciliata n. sp." = Glyptotomaria ciliata2
"Pleurotomaria ciliata n. sp." = Glyptotomaria ciliata2 Clarke 1904 snail