Kinderhook Micropaleontology

Abstract

Both published and unpublished information on Kinderhook microfaunas, together with significant macrofaunas and floras, are reviewed in an effort to assess the value of these microfaunas, particularly the conodonts, for stratigraphic correlation. Of all classes of fossils represented, the conodonts are best known because of their widespread occurrence in beds of this age and the relatively large number of papers published on them. The ostracodes, which occur in several zones, are relatively abundant but little known. Other kinds of microfossils, such as Foraminifera, holothurian and echinoid fragments, spores, ?radiolarians, and nepionic forms of many of the common larger fossils are the subject of few reports or have been neglected entirely.