Where: Tioga County, New York (42.4° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° S, 24.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Triangle Formation (Sonyea Group), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; bioturbated shale and siltstone
Primary reference: K. B. Macdonald. 1975. Quantitative community analysis: Recurrent group and cluster techniques applied to the fauna of the Upper Devonian Sonyea Group, New York. Journal of Geology 82:473-499 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10307: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 03.04.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Bivalvia | |
Leptodesma spinigerum Conrad 1842 oyster |