ammonites
Fish Creek - Upper Sodus Shale (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, New York (43.2° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 45.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sodus Formation (Clinton Group), Aeronian to Aeronian (439.0 - 428.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, green shale and lithified limestone

• Green shale with limestone layers

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 81872: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 17.07.2008