Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 23.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mottville Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous shale
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: T. X. Grasso. 1986. Redefinition, Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Mottville Member (Hamilton Group) in Central and Eastern New York. In E. Landing, C. E. Brett (eds.), Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part I 457:5-31 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8826: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Paleozygopleura (Loxonema) sp." = Rhabdostropha
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Bembexia sp. Oehlert and Oehlert 1888 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Pholadella sp. Hall 1869 clam | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Nucleospira sp. Hall 1859 | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Pustulatia pustulosa Hall 1860 | |
Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904 | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Heliophyllum halli Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral |