Thayer Peabody Collection A9160 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Otsego County, New York (42.5° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 22.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: hermanni conodont zone, lower Geneseo Member (Geneseo Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified sandstone

• sandstone with rip-ups

Collected by Charles Thayer in 1968-1970; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: J. J. Zambito. 2008. Work with Thayer collections, Yale Peabody Accession 7112, published, in part, "New perspectives on transitions between ecological-evolutionary subunits in the "type interval" for coordinated stasis", James J Zambito IV, Carlton E Brett, Gordon C Baird, Sarah E Kolbe, Arnold I Miller; Paleobiology. [A. Miller/J. Zambito/J. Zambito]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90867: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 20.08.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria laevis" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha concentrica Conrad 1838 clam
 Solenida - Orthonotidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras indet. Breynius 1832