Where: Wyoming County, New York (42.7° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° S, 26.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hanover Shale Member (Java Formation), Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)
• Brachiopod bed about 1.4 m above Frasnian-Famennian boundary. Aged based on conodonts present. Lower Palmatolepis triangularis Zone, lowermost Famennian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray siltstone and gray, green mudstone
•The brachiopod bed is a 5-8 cm thick medium gray siltstone that consists of three fining upward intervals. Brachiopods are ... concentrated in a single 1.0-1.5 cm interval in the middle of the bed, developed in a coarser and more pyritic zone over clay-rich and bioturbated laminae. The pyrite and shell-rich interval overlies a low relief scour surface, indicating a concentration of coarser and denser material during higher energy conditions. the shell-bearing bed [has] low amplitude ripple marks [with] a 6-7 cm wavelength with ripple crests oriented NNE-SSW..."
Primary reference: J. Day and D. J. Over. 2002. Post-extinction survivor fauna from the lowermost Famennian of eastern North America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(2):189-202 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35384: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 09.12.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Palmatolepis sp. Müller 1956 conodont | |
Polygnathus sp. Hinde 1879 conodont | |
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont | |
Lingulata | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Barroisella cf. campbelli estimate based on ratio of Retichonetes to Barroisella in complete survey of one slab; 184 specimens were measured to produce a rose diagram
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Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
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Tylothyris mesacostalis Hall 1867 one figured spedcimen and "approximately 180 additional unnumbered specimens"
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Schizophoria (Schizophoria) sp. King 1850 | |
Strophomenata | |
Retichonetes aff. obscurus Cooper and Dutro 1982 six numbered specimens and "approximately 2,000 unnumbered" shells
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