Where: Herkimer County, New York (42.9° N, 74.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 26.5° S, 56.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Dayville Member (Coeymans Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone
Primary reference: L.V. Rickard and D.H. Zenger. 1964. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Richfield Springs and Cooperstown Quadrangles, New York. Bulletin of the New York State Museum and Science Service 396:101 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 76848: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 03.12.2007
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites helderbergiae tabulate coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Rhipidomelloides oblata Hall 1857 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Schuchertella woolworthana" = Xystostrophia woolworthana
"Schuchertella woolworthana" = Xystostrophia woolworthana Hall 1857 | |
"Brachyprion varistriata" = Mesodouvillina varistriata
"Brachyprion varistriata" = Mesodouvillina varistriata Conrad 1842 | |
Strophonella punctulifera Conrad 1838 |