Panther Mountain Formation Explained

Panther Mountain Formation
Type:	Formation
Period:	Givetian
Prilithology:	Shale
Namedfor:	Panther Mountain
Unitof:	Hamilton Group
Underlies:	Portland Point Formation, Plattekill Formation
Overlies:	Cherry Valley Limestone

The Panther Mountain Formation is a geologic formation in New York. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. It is located in the counties of Albany, Madison, Oneida, Otsego, and Schoharie. It is well known for its fossil arthropods preserved as flattened cuticles, including Attercopus and Dracochela.^[1]

Paleobiota

Arachnids

Arachnids
Genus	Species	Notes	Images
Aculeatarbus	A. depressus	A trigonotarbid in the family Palaeocharinidae.
Alkenia	A. mirabilis	A trigonotarbid in the family Aphantomartidae.^[2]
Archaeacarus	A. dubinini	A mite in the family Alicorhagiidae.^[3]
Archaeomartus	A. levis	A trigonotarbid in the family Archaeomartidae. A. tuberculatus is a synonym of A. levis.
Attercopus	A. fimbriunguis	A member of order Uraraneida. Originally described as a species of Gelasinotarbus.^[4] ^[5]
Devonacarus	D. sellnicki	A oribatid mite.
Dracochela	D. deprehendor	A pseudoscorpion.^[6] ^[7]
Ecchosis	E. pulchribothrium	An indeterminate pulmonate (arthropod with book lung), possibly whip spider.^[8]
Gelasinotarbus	G. bonamoae, G. bifidus, G. heptops, G. reticulatus	Trigonotarbids in the family Palaeocharinidae.
Gilboarachne	G. griersoni
Palaeocharinus	P. sp.
Protochthonius	P. gilboa	A oribatid mite.^[9]

Myriapods

Myriapods
Genus	Species	Notes	Images
Crussolum	C. crusserratum	A scutigeromorph centipede.^[10]
Devonobius	D. delta	A centipede in the order Devonobiomorpha.^[11]
Microdecemplex	M. rolfei	A millipede in the order Microdecemplicida, in the subclass Arthropleuridea.^[12]

Insects

Eye fragments of supposed archaeognathan affinities, and scales of possible archaeognathan or zygentoman affinities are known.^[13]

Flora

Flora
Genus	Species	Notes	Images
Haskinsia	H. colophylla	Lycopod.
Lecleruqia	L. complexa
Rellimia	R. thomsonii	a progymnosperm.

See also

• Gilboa Fossil Forest, forest existed in Givetian of New York
• List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New York

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Panther Mountain Formation . . August 31, 2009 . November 5, 2020.
2. Bonamo . P. M. . Grierson . James D. . Rolfe . W. D. Ian . Selden . Paul . Shear . William A. . 1987 . New terrestrial arachnids from the Devonian of Gilboa, New York (Arachnida, Trigonotarbida) . American Museum Novitates . 2901 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.
3. Kethley . John B. . Norton . Roy A. . Bonamo . Patricia M. . Shear . William A. . 1989 . A Terrestrial Alicorhagiid Mite (Acari: Acariformes) from the Devonian of New York . Micropaleontology . 35 . 4 . 367–373 . 10.2307/1485678 . 1485678 . 1989MiPal..35..367K . 0026-2803.
4. Paul A. Selden, William A. Shear & Patricia M. Bonamo . 1991 . A spider and other arachnids from the Devonian of New York, and reinterpretations of Devonian Araneae . . 34 . 241–281 . 1808/8336.
5. P. A. Selden, W. A. Shear & M. D. Sutton . 2008 . Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order . . 105 . 52 . 20781–20785 . 10.1073/pnas.0809174106 . 2634869 . 19104044 . free.
6. Bonamo . P. M. . Schawaller . Wolfgang . Shear . William A. . The first Paleozoic pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpionida) . American Museum Novitates . 3009 . 2023-10-02 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.
7. Judson . Mark L. I. . 2012 . Reinterpretation of Dracochela deprehendor (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) as a stem-group pseudoscorpion: STEM-GROUP PSEUDOSCORPION . Palaeontology . en . 55 . 2 . 261–283 . 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01134.x. free .
8. Selden . Paul A. . Shear . William A. . Bonamo . Patricia M. . 1991 . A spider and other arachnids from the Devonian of New York, and reinterpretations of Devonian Araneae . en-US.
9. Norton . Roy A. . Bonamo . Patricia M. . Grierson . James D. . Shear . William A. . 1988 . Oribatid Mite Fossils from a Terrestrial Devonian Deposit near Gilboa, New York . Journal of Paleontology . 62 . 2 . 259–269 . 10.1017/S0022336000029905 . 1305232 . 1988JPal...62..259N . 133114808 . 0022-3360.
10. Shear . William A. . Jeram . Andrew J. . Selden . Paul . 1998 . Centiped legs (Arthropoda, Chilopoda, Scutigeromorpha) from the Silurian and Devonian of Britain and the Devonian of North America . American Museum Novitates . 3231 . 2246/3370.
11. Bonamo . P. M. . Shear . William A. . 1988 . Devonobiomorpha, a new order of centipeds (Chilopoda) from the Middle Devonian of Gilboa, New York State, USA, and the phylogeny of centiped orders . American Museum Novitates . 2927 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.
12. Wilson . Heather M. . Shear . William A. . 1999 . Microdecemplicida, a new order of minute arthropleurideans (Arthropoda: Myriapoda) from the Devonian of New York State, U.S.A. . Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . en . 90 . 4 . 351–375 . 10.1017/S0263593300002674 . 129597005 . 1473-7116.
13. Haug . Carolin . Haug . Joachim T. . 2017-05-30 . The presumed oldest flying insect: more likely a myriapod? . PeerJ . en . 5 . e3402 . 10.7717/peerj.3402 . 2167-8359. free . 28584727 . 5452959 .