Johnson's Falls, near Strykersville (Devonian of the United States)
Where: Wyoming County, New York (42.7° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.3° S, 26.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gowanda Shale Formation (Canadaway Group), Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)
• Early Famennian, Early Nehdenian, UD II-C
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandy shale
• outer shelf.
• dark sandy shale
Reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: J. M. Clarke. 1904. Naples fauna in western New York, pt. 2. New York State Museum Memoirs 6:199-454 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 84652: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.11.2008