Also known as Tribes Hill Fm.; NE of Smiths Basin, Washington Co.

Where: Washington County, New York (43.4° N, 73.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° S, 67.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rossodus manitouensis conodont zone, Wolf Hollow Member (Tribes Hill Formation), Skullrockian (487.5 - 482.3 Ma)

• "Wolf Hollow Member, upper Tribes Hill Formation, lower Lower Ordovician (upper Skullrockian) [...]. Flower’s field notes indicate he believed this was an 'Upper Cambrian' nautiloid assemblage which he referred to the 'Wood Creek Limestone' (a stratigraphic designation which was never formalized or published). Subsequently, Fisher (1984) mapped this small limestone outcrop area as Upper Cambrian 'Whitehall Formation' (now Little Falls Formation; see Landing et al., 2003). [...] Acid disaggregation of cuttings from Flower’s specimens (i.e., NYSM locality 5898) and samples collected at the locality yielded Rossodus manitouensis Zone (upper Skullrockian) conodonts (E. Landing, personal data, 2005). These data and the dark color of the massive limestone indicate that Flower’s 'Wood Creek Limestone' is a fault-bounded, down-dropped block of Wolf Hollow Member limestone." (Kröger & Landing, 2007, Appendix).

•"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) (Fig. 2)." (ibid. p. 842).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by R. H. Flower in 1947; reposited in the NYSM

• "R. H. Flower collected between 1945 and 1947 at this locality, and 114 specimens are in the NYSM collection"

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 89489: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 26.05.2009

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