E-Bar-3.5 - Keeler's Eskimo Bar ice cream stand (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Columbia County, New York (42.2° N, 73.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° S, 88.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Elliptocephala asaphoides trilobite zone, Browns Pond Formation, Dyeran (516.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Initially entered as "Middle Granville Fm". From Anse Maranda Fm, which overlies the Lauzon Fm. Equivalent to the upper Browns Pond, Middle Granville, and lower Hatch Hill Fm of New York. AGE: Stage designation not stated in publication, initailly entered as "Dyeran"; from middle Olenellus zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From near base of section, at 4.0 m.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, dolomitic, gray siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: The limestone-bearing part of the E-Bar locality represents one of the most proximal, dark siltstone facies in the Lower Cambrian slope facies of the Taconic allochthon.
• LITHOLOGY: Dark grey debris flow, siltstone granule- to pebble-dominated with dolomitic matrix, with pebbles to boulders of echinoderm-intraclast granule pack- to grainstone (large ellipse) and calcareous siltstone (small ellipse). LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens, facies descriptions, and sample preparation.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with phosphate

Collected by Landing & Bartwoski; reposited in the NYSM

Collection methods: bulk, acetic

• COLLECTORS: Not stated in text, but presumably E. Landing and K. Bartowski. REPOSITORY: New York State Museum.

Primary reference: E. Landing and K.E. Bartowski. 1996. Oldest shelly fossils from the Taconic Allochthon and late Early Cambrian sea-levels in eastern Laurentia. Journal of Paleontology 70(5):741-761 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171821: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for marine invertebrate groups. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publications with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications where possible.
unclassified
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Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Plinthokonion
  -
? Plinthokonion psamminon Landing and Bartowski 1996
Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae
Halkieria sp. Poulsen 1967
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella primaeva Billings 1872
 Helcionellida - Helcionellidae
Asperconella troyensis, "Mackinnonia obliqua" = Davidonia rostratum, "Stenotheca taconica" = Davidonia taconica
"Mackinnonia obliqua" = Davidonia rostratum Zhou and Xiao 1984
"Stenotheca taconica" = Davidonia taconica Landing and Bartowski 1996
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
"Lapworthella schodackensis" = Lapworthella schodakensis
"Lapworthella schodackensis" = Lapworthella schodakensis Lochman 1956
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida - Furnishinidae
Life
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus micans Billings 1871