BR-1.32 (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Montgomery County, New York (42.9° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 68.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rossodus manitouensis conodont zone, Van Wie Member (Tribes Hill Formation), Tremadocian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, intraclastic packstone and lithified, gray shale

• "[Sample from] recessive, thin interval of dark grey shale and lenticular, intraclast-trilobite-echinoderm limestone...locally dolomitized...weathers buff to tan."

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by E. Landing, L. Knox, S. Westrop; reposited in the NYSM

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: E. Landing, S. R. Westrop, and L. A. Knox. 1996. Conodonts, Stratigraphy, and Relative Sea-Level Changes of the Tribes Hill Formation (Lower Ordovician, East-Central New York). Journal of Paleontology 70(4):656-680 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174044: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 24.10.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Gastropods and trilobites may also be present (the latter reported from other beds in section)
Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Rossodus manitouensis Repetski and Ethington 1983 conodont
 Panderodontida -
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
"Cordylodus caseyi" = Cordylodus intermedius Furnish 1938 conodont
Cordylodus angulatus Pander 1856 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
Semiacontiodus iowensis Fürnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Acanthodontidae
Acanthodus uncinatus Furnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Laurentoscandodus triangularis Furnish 1938 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Variabiloconus bassleri Furnish 1938 conodont