Limestone Crowded by Crinoid Stem Fragments
Limestone Crowded by Crinoid Stem fragments and Illustrations of other Fossils.
Located in Niagara County
Image Courtesy of Jorg Maletz
Type: Private.
Features: Medina Group-Whirlpool Sandstone; Power Glen Shale; Devils Hole Sandstone; Grimsby Formation; Thorold Sanstone; Clinton Group; Fossils. Brachiopods (left), trilobites (right), and corals (rugose coral on photo in center) are common.
Feature Type: Stratigraphic.
Reference: NYS Geological Association Field Trip Guidebook, 71st Annual Meeting 1999;
Silurian-Early Devonian Sequence Stratigraphy, Events, and Paleoenvironments of Western New York and Ontario, Canada.
For Online Reference Please visit: www.nysga.net/Guidebooks.html.
Quadrangle: Lewiston.
Reason for Designation: Unique.