Also known as Mohawk Valley, Montgomery Co.

Where: Montgomery County, New York (42.9° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° S, 68.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tribes Hill Formation (Beekmantown Group), Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)

• "riberirid zone" (!?) (Flower, 1964)

•"Trilobite and conodont faunas of the Tribes Hill Formation in New York and Vermont (Westrop et al., 1993; Landing et al., 1996, 2003) indicate that the formation represents only a small interval of the lower, but not lowermost, Ordovician (i.e., lower Tremadocian, upper Skullrockian Stage of Ross et al., 1997)" (Kröger & Landing, 2007, J. Paleont. 81(5))

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: RHF = collection of Rousseau H. Flower, transferred to the Smithsonian Institution/U.S. National Museum (see Wolberg, 1990, J. Paleont. 64(3, 4, 5))

Primary reference: R. H. Flower. 1964. The Nautiloid Order Ellesmeroceratida (Cephalopoda). State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 12:234 p. [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88873: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.04.2009

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