Where: New York (42.2° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° S, 25.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Wiscoy Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• This formation is equivalent to the Foreknobs Fm. in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified, burrowed shale and siltstone

Primary reference: G. R. McGhee and R. G. Sutton. 1981. Late Devonian marine ecology and zoogeography of the central Appalachians and New York. Lethaia 14(1):27-43 [A. Miller/A. Webber]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3922: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 11.08.1999, edited by Alycia Stigall

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