Stony Creek - Sauquoit (Silurian of the United States)

Where: Oneida County, New York (43.1° N, 75.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.9° S, 89.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sauquoit Formation (Clinton Group), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified, pyritic, green, sandy shale and lithified, fine-grained, pyritic mixed carbonate-siliciclastic

• Green sandy, fissile shale with sandstone members. Sandstones fine grained. Pyrite very common. Both shales and sandstones fossiliferous

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 82566: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 29.07.2008, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Zygobolbidae
 Palaeocopida - Eurychilinidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira hemispherica de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Cyclonema varicosum Hall 1861 snail
 Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Plectonotoides boucoti Peel 1974 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae