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NYSM locality 5898, Washington County, New York, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 43.3644,-73.4817 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | New York, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Washington County, New York, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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NYSM locality 5898 | Kröger B., Landing E. (2007) | Beekmantown - Tribes Hill - Wolf Hollow | "Wolf Hollow Member, upper Tribes Hill Formation, lower Lower Ordovician (upper Skullrockian) [...]. Flower’s field notes indicate he believed this was an 'Upper Cambrian' nautiloid assemblage which he referred to the 'Wood Creek Limestone' (a stratigraphic designation which was never formalized or published). Subsequently, Fisher (1984) mapped this small limestone outcrop area as Upper Cambrian 'Whitehall Formation' (now Little Falls Formation; see Landing et al., 2003). [...] Acid disaggregati | wackestone | 485.4 - 478.6 Ma Paleozoic |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Annoceras costatum species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ellesmeroceratidae : Annoceras : Annoceras costatum | 485.4 - 478.6 Ma Paleozoic |
Dakeoceras champlainense species | Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ellesmeroceratidae : Dakeoceras : Dakeoceras champlainense | 485.4 - 478.6 Ma Paleozoic |
References
Kröger B., Landing E. (2007) The Earliest Ordovician Cephalopods of Eastern Laurentia - Ellesmerocerids of the Tribes Hill Formation, Eastern New York, Journal of Paleontology 81 5, 841-857 |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!