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Conodonts, stratigraphy, and relative sea-level changes of the Tribes Hill Formation (Lower Ordovician, east-central New York)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Ed Landing ,
Stephen R. Westrop  and
Leanne A. Knox
Ed Landing
Affiliation:
1New York State Geological Survey, The State Education Department, Albany 12230
Stephen R. Westrop
Affiliation:
2Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
Leanne A. Knox
Affiliation:
2Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada
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Abstract

Tremadocian onlap is recorded by the Tribes Hill Formation. The formation is a lower Lower Ordovician (upper conodont Fauna B Interval(?)-Rossodus manitouensis Zone) depositional sequence that unconformably overlies the Upper Cambrian Little Falls Formation.

Depositional environments and stratigraphy indicate that the Tribes Hill was deposited on a wave-, not tide-, dominated shelf and that a uniform, “layer-cake” stratigraphy is present. The deepening-shoaling sequence of the Tribes Hill includes the: 1) Sprakers Member (new; peritidal carbonate and overlying tempestite limestone and shale); 2) Van Wie Member (new; subtidal shale and limestone); 3) Wolf Hollow Member (revised; massive carbonates with thrombolitic cap); and 4) Canyon Road Member (new; glauconitic limestone and overlying evaporitic dolostone). The shoaling half-cycle of the Tribes Hill is older than a shoaling event in western Newfoundland, and suggests epeirogenic factors in earliest Ordovician sea-level change in east Laurentia. Conodont and trilobite biofacies track lithofacies, and Rossodus manitouensis Zone conodonts and Bellefontia Biofacies trilobites appear in the distal, middle Tribes Hill Formation.

Twenty-four conodont species are illustrated. Ansella? protoserrata new species, Iapetognathus sprakersi new species, Leukorhinion ambonodes new genus and species, and Laurentoscandodus new genus are described.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 4 , July 1996 , pp. 656 - 680
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