Where: New York (43.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° S, 40.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Ilion Formation (Lockport Group), Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• Age is based on the stratigraphic correlations of Zenger, 1965.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, black, gray shale
Primary reference: C. E. Brett. 1999. Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities: A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 592-637 [M. Foote/K. Koverman/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 12931: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 10.01.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Favosites spp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conularia sp. jellyfish | |
Ostracoda | |
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Herrmannina sp. Kegel 1933 ostracod | |
Euchelicerata | |
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Polychaeta | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Lingulata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Howellella spp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
? Homoeospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pyrenomoeus cuneatus Hall 1852 clam | |
"Leiopteria ? subplana" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria), Cornellites sp.
"Leiopteria ? subplana" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster
Cornellites sp. Williams 1908 oyster |