Where: Onondaga County, New York (42.9° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 23.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mottville Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous shale

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: T. X. Grasso. 1986. Redefinition, Stratigraphy and Depostional Environments of the Mottville Member (Hamilton Group) in Central and Eastern New York. Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part I, NY State Museum Bulletin (457)5-31 [A. Miller/K. Layou/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8927: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.09.2000