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
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Ostracoda | |
Zygobolba curta ostracod
Zygobolba ? elongata ostracod
Zygobolba excavata ostracod
Zygobolba inflata ostracod
Zygobolba prolixa ostracod | |
Bivalvia | |
Pyrenomoeus cuneatus Hall 1852 clam | |
"Ctenodonta elliptica" = Leda elliptica
"Ctenodonta elliptica" = Leda elliptica Goldfuss 1837 pointed nut clam | |
Pterinea emacerata oyster | |
Modiolopsis subalata clam | |
Lophophorata | |
Stenolaemata | |
Phaenopora ensiformis Hall 1852 | |
Helopora fragilis Hall 1851 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata
"Stropheodonta corrugata" = Strophodonta corrugata Conrad 1842 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula oblata Hall 1843
Lingula clintoni Vanuxem 1842 | |
"Lingula perovata" = Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata
"Lingula perovata" = Lingula (Palaeoglossa) perovata Hall 1852 |