Schaeffer Creek, 1 mile north of Centerfield (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Schaffer Creek

Where: Ontario County, New York (42.9° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° S, 24.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Centerfield Limestone Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• "Late Middle Devonian" (Grant 1965)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: R. E. Grant. 1965. The brachiopod superfamily Stenoscismatacea. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Contributions 148(2):1-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206793: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 03.12.2019, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Dolatocrinidae
Dolatocrinus sp. Lyon 1857 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Megistocrinus sp. Owen and Shumard 1852 Sea lily
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Hyperoblastidae
Eleutherocrinus cassedayi Shumard and Yandell 1856 blastoid
Ostracoda
 Beyrichicopida - Richinidae
Richina truncata Coryell and Malkin 1936 ostracod
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
 Athyridida - Parazygidae
Parazyga hirsuta Hall 1857
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Athyridida - Meristidae
 Rhynchonellida - Machaerariidae
"Cyclorhina nobilis" = Callipleura nobilis
"Cyclorhina nobilis" = Callipleura nobilis Hall 1860
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Atribonium aff. kernahani Whiteaves 1898
USNM 141889
 Terebratulida - Centronellidae
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
"Eunella attenuata" = Cranaena
"Eunella attenuata" = Cranaena
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites goldfussi tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites turbinatus tabulate coral
Favosites placentus tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
Prismatophyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral