Sterling Station - RR ore pit - lower 4.5' shale Bear Creek (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Cayuga County, New York (43.3° N, 76.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 27.7° S, 97.3° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Creek Formation (Clinton Group), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• lowest 4.5' of shale exposed

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale and lithified limestone

• Dark gray or purple shale with few limestone layers.

Primary reference: T. Gillette. 1947. The Clinton of Western and Central New York. New York State Museum Bulletin (341) [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 82543: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 28.07.2008

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Pyrenomoeus cuneatus Hall 1852 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Ctenodonta elliptica" = Leda elliptica
"Ctenodonta elliptica" = Leda elliptica Goldfuss 1837 pointed nut clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula oblata Hall 1843
Lingula clintoni Vanuxem 1842
 Lingulida - Obolidae
"Lingula perovata" = Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata
"Lingula perovata" = Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata Hall 1852