Where: Livingston County, New York (42.8° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 25.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ledyard Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• this horizon is within the upper transitional shales of the Wheeler Gully submember of the Centerfield

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray claystone

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: M. Savarese, L. M. Gray, and C. E. Brett. 1986. Faunal and Lithologic Cyclicity in the Centerfield Member (Middle Devonian: Hamilton Group) of Western New York: A Reinterpretation of Depositional History. Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part I, New York State Museum Bulletin (457)32-56 [A. Miller/K. Layou] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8799: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.08.2000