Judson Point, unnamed fm. (?) NY (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: New York (42.3° N, 73.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° S, 91.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Nevadella trilobite zone, Caerfai (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• AGE: "Lower Cambrian, "Nevadella zone ?"; refined to Caefai based on more recent data (A. Hendy, 6/2009)

Environment/lithology: marine; gray shale

• "outer (?) shelf or even slope??"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. M. Bird and F. Rasetti. 1968. Lower, Middle and Upper Cambrian Faunas in the Taconic Sequence of Eastern New York: Stratigraphic and Biostratigraphic Significance. Geological Society of America Special Paper 113:1-66 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 20.11.1998

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Taxonomic list

• "Bird and Rasetti 1968"
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 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp.
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Weymouthiidae
Serrodiscus sp.
Serrodiscus sp. Richter and Richter 1941
Trilobita
  - Atopidae
Atops sp.
Atops sp. Emmons 1844 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
Rimouskia sp.
Rimouskia sp. Resser 1938 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Wanneriidae
Elliptocephala sp.
Elliptocephala sp. Emmons 1844 trilobite
Obolellata
 Obolellida - Obolellidae
Obolella sp.
Obolella sp. Billings 1861
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp.
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840