Eocoelia-protobranch community, Sauquoit and Willowvale Fms. (Silurian of the United States)

Where: New York (43.2° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 45.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cycle V, VI zone, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• "lower Sil (cycle V and VI) upper Llandovery. Sauquoit and Willowvale Fms."

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone and shale

• "sh with ss beds. BA2"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Gillette. 1947. The Clinton of Western and Central New York. New York State Museum Bulletin (341) [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 458: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 10.12.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Ziegler et al. 1971 unpublished. Gillette 1947."
unclassified
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Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid stem
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira sp. Hall 1863
 Orthida - Draboviidae
? Salopina sp. Boucot 1960
originally entered as "? Salopina sp."
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
Atrypina sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
rhynchonellid - originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucanellidae
Bucanella sp. Meek 1871 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema sp. Hall 1852 snail
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma sp. Hall 1883 oyster
Pterinea sp. Goldfuss 1832 oyster
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Amphiocoelia sp. Hall 1867 clam
originally entered as "Amphicoelia sp."
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodonta sp. Billings 1858 clam
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
Ostracoda
 Beyrichiacea - Zygobolbidae
Mastigobolbina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
2 species
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite