Eurypterid-Associated Biota of the Olney Member, Syracuse (Devonian of the United States)

Where: New York (43.1° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° S, 34.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Olney Member (Manlius Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; limestone and bindstone

• "BA 1 as indicated by the brachiopods and Leperditia.."

•2003:05:03 SEP environmental call based on given information and on other calls on this unit

• "fine-grained limestone, with the eurypterids in a stromatoporoid biostrome"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26871: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 06.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet.
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp.
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Acutiramus sp.
Acutiramus sp. eurypterid
 Eurypterida - Erieopteridae
Erieopterus microphthalmus