Also known as East of Fort Hunter, Montgomery Co.
Where: Montgomery County, New York (42.9° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° S, 68.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Canyon Road Member (Tribes Hill Formation), Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)
• "Lower Canyon Road Member ('Fonda Member' of Fisher, 1954), Upper Tribes Hill Formation"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, ferruginous, glauconitic, intraclastic, ooidal limestone
•According to lithology description, sequence stratigraphic interpretation, and stratigraphic position above reef rocks, these beds most likely represent lagoonal back-reef deposits. (TL)
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collected by D. W. Fisher in 1954; reposited in the NYSM
Primary reference: B. Kröger and E. Landing. 2007. The Earliest Ordovician Cephalopods of Eastern Laurentia - Ellesmerocerids of the Tribes Hill Formation, Eastern New York. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):841-857 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87320: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 15.03.2009, edited by Björn Kröger
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Eorudolfoceras sp. Kröger and Landing 2007
Eorudolfoceras antiquum Flower 1964
"Bassleroceras clelandi" = Ectenolites clelandi Ulrich et al. 1944 |