Sodus Creek at Glenmark - Top 25' Rochester (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 43.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rochester Formation (Clinton Group), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• Transition between Rochester & Lockport

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, dolomitic, gray, blue, calcareous shale and lithified, argillaceous limestone

• Bluish gray, slightly dolomitic, calcareous shale with numerous tough, argillaceous limestone layers and a few medium gray, crystalline, thin, fossiliferous layers.

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 81920: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 18.07.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
"Zaphrentis turbinata" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis turbinata" = Zaphrenthis horn coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites pyriformis tabulate coral
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
 Beyrichicopida - Aechminidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis, "Diaphorostoma hemisphericum" = Platyostoma hemispherica
"Platyceras niagarense" = Platyceras niagarensis Hall 1852 snail
"Diaphorostoma hemisphericum" = Platyostoma hemispherica Hall 1843 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
"Atrypa nodostriata" = Eospinatrypa nodostriata Hall 1852
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus
"Spirifer radiatus" = Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda
"Stropheodonta profunda" = Brachyprion (Protomegastrophia) profunda Hall 1852
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Sowerbyella transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
  - Phylloporinidae
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Cytherina
  -
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa
"Paraechmina spinosa" = Cytherina spinosa Hall 1852