Willse Four Corners - Deansboro (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Otsego? County, New York (42.9° N, 74.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 26.5° S, 56.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Deansboro Member (Coeymans Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Stratigraphy is contentuous; this time interval is based on GSA annual meeting 2001 paper # 135.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue grainstone

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83108: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 07.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
"Brachyprion varistriata" = Mesodouvillina varistriata
"Brachyprion varistriata" = Mesodouvillina varistriata Conrad 1842
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Tremanotus profundus Hall 1859 snail