upper shale, Jaycox Member, Seneca Lake Valley, Ontario Co., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ontario County, New York (42.8° N, 77.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.2° S, 44.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Jaycox Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; gray, calcareous shale

• calcareous shale

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. M. Mayer. 1989. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Jaycox Shale Member, Hamilton Group of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State. 1-121 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9029: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 15.09.2000

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• This list is a composite faunal list for the three localities listed above. This collection also includes lycopsid wood.
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras uniangulare Conrad 1842 ammonite
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Kionoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras ? sp. Foerste 1932
nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
small bivalves
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid stems
 Ichnofossils -
Zoophycos sp. Massalongo 1855