Costispirifer and Rensselaria communities, Oriskany Sandstone, New York and Penn (Devonian of the United States)
Where: New York (41.4° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 32.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Oriskany Sandstone Formation, Pragian (412.3 - 409.1 Ma)
• "mid L. Dev (Siegenian)"
Environment/lithology: shoreface; sandstone and conglomerate
• "fine to coarse grained ss and congl.; x-beds, rippling, scour and fill. nearshore (upper shoreface to lower shoreface) BA3?"
Primary reference: J. J. Sepkoski Jr. 1998. Rates of speciation in the fossil record. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society Biological Sciences 353(1366):315-326 [J. Sepkoski/M. Sommers/A. Clement] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 600: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999