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A great effort has been made to correctly identify all specimens found in the Rochester Shale by genera and species. However, if I wasn't able to confidently identify a specimen they are listed as "Undetermined". 
Below you will find the specimen name along with the author and year named. 


Coral (3)    
Bivalves (2)    Cephalopods (5)    Bryozoan (15)    Brachiopods (26)


Gastropods (5)    Conulariids (4)    Graptolites (8)    Worm Tubes (4)


Machaeridian Worms (1)    Edrioasteroids (2)   Starfish (3)    Brittle Stars (2)


Crinoids (14)    Coronoidea (1)    Cystoids (3)    Trilobites (11)    Ichnofossils (Trace Fossils) (4)


Incertae sedis (uncertain group) (3)

Corals
      Favosites niagarensis Hall,1852
      Favosites parasiticus (Hall, 1852)
      Enterolasma caliculus (Hall, 1852)

Bryozoan
      Acanthopora sp.
      Chilotrypa ostiolata (Hall, 1852)
      Chasmatopora asperato-striata 
(Hall, 1852)
      Drymotrypa diffusa 
(Hall, 1890)
      
Drymotrypa sp.
      Fenestella elegans
Hall, 1852
      Fistuliporoid
      Hallopora aspera (Hall, 1852)
      Hallopora elegantula (Hall, 1852)
      Lichenalia concentrica Hall, 1852
      Leioclema floridana (Hall, 1852)
      Ramose Trepostome
      Semicoscinium tenuiceps (Hall, 1852)
      Trematopora tuberculata (Hall, 1852)
      Encrusting Trepostome 

Conularians
      Conularia niagarensis Hall, 1852
      Conularia cf. conularia longa Hall, 1852
      
Undetermined CON01
      Undetermined CON02
Brachiopods
      Inarticulates
          Orbiculopidea sp.
          Lingula lamellata Hall, 1843

      Articulates
          Amphistrophia striata (Hall, 1843)
          Ancillotoechia obtuspicata (Hall,1852)
          Atrypina disparilis (Hall, 1852)
          Atrypa reticularis (Linneaus, 1767)
          Boucotinskia sulcata (Hisinger, 1828)
          Coolinia suplana (Conrad, 1842)
          Dalejina hybrida (Sowerby, 1839)
          Diabolirhynchus acinus (Hall, 1852)
          Dictyonella corallifera Hall, 1852
          Eoplectodonta transversalis (Wahlenberg, 1818)
          Homeospira cf. apriniformis Hall, 1852
          Howella crispa (Hisinger, 1827)
          Leptaena rhomboidalis (Wahlenberg, 1818)
          Plectartypa nodostriata (Hall, 1857)
          Resserella elegantula (Dalman, 1828)
          Rhynchonellid sp.
          Rhynchotreta americana (Hall, 1852)
          Stegerhynchus neglectum (Hall, 1852)
          Stegerhynchus sp.
          Striispirifer niagarensis (Conrad, 1843)
          Trematospira camura (Hall, 1852)
          Whitfieldella cf. oblata Hall, 1852
          Whitfieldella nitida Hall, 1843
          Undetermined BRA01
          
Echinoderms
 
Asteroids (Starfish)   
    Palaeaster niagarensis Hall, 1852
    Undetermined STA01
    Undetermined STA02

Ophiuroids (Brittle Stars)
    Protaster sp.
    Protaster stellifer Ringueberg, 1886

Edrioasteroids
    Hemicystites parasiticus Hall, 1852
    Rhenopyrgid

Crinoids
    Catatonocrinus halli (Ringueberg, 1889)
    Crinobrachiatus brachiatus (Hall, 1852)
    Dendrocrinus celsus Ringueberg, 1888
    Dendrocrinus sp.
    Dimerocrinites sp.
    Eucalyptocrinites caelatus (Hall, 1852)
    Gazacrinus sp.
    Homocrinus parvus Hall, 1852
    Icthyocrinus laevis Conrad, 1842
    Lecanocrinus macropetalus Hall, 1852
    Lyriocrinus dactylus Hall, 1852
    Macrostylocrinus sp.
    cf. "Platycrinites" corporiculus Ringueberg, 1886
    Saccocrinus speciosus Hall, 1852

Rhombiferan Cystoids
    Apiocystites elegans Hall, 1852
    Caryocrinites ornatus Say, 1825
    Callocystites jewetti Hall, 1852

Coronoidea
    Stephanocrinus angulatus Conrad, 1842
Mollusks

 Bivalves
      Cornellites emacerata (Conrad, 1842)         
      Cypricardinia sp.

 Gastropods
      Naticonema niagarensis (Hall, 1852)
      Naticonema sp.
      Platyceras niagarensis (Hall, 1852)
      Platyceras sp.
      Poleumita sp.

  Cephalopods
      Cyrtoceras cancellatum Hall, 1852
      Dawsonoceras americanum (Foord, 1888)
      Kionoceras sp.
      Orthocone sp.
      Undetermined CEP01

Conulariids
      Conularia niagarensis Hall, 1852
      Conularia cf. longa Hall, 1852

Worms

Worm Tubes
      Cornulites bellistriatus Conrad, 1842
      Cornulites arcuatus Hall, 1852
      Microconchus sp.
      Sphenothallus sp.      

 Machaeridians
      Lepidocoleus sarlei Clarke, 1896


Arthropods

Trilobites
    Arctinurus boltoni (Bigsby, 1825)
    Bumastus ioxus (Hall, 1852)
    Calymene niagarensis Hall, 1852
    Diacalymene sp.
    Dalmanites limulurus (Green, 1832)
    Decoroproetus corycoeus (Conrad, 1842)
    Dicranopeltus nereus (Hall, 1863)
    Illaenus insignis Hall, 1882
    Radnoria bretti Adrain & Tetreault, 2005
    Trimerus delphinocephalus (Green, 1832)
    Undetermined TRI01

Other Arthropods

Phyllocarids
    Ceratiocaris deweyi Hall, 1852

Eurypterids
    Paracarcinosoma sp.

Incertae Sedis (uncertain group)
    Plant Material
    Prototaxites sp.
    Tentaculites niagarensis Hall, 1852
    Undetermined UNC01

Ichnofossils (trace fossils)
    Bifungites halli  Desio, 1940
    Diplichnites sp.
    Rusophycus bilobatum Hall, 1852
    Chondrites (burrows)
Graptolites
    Acanthograptus granti Spencer, 1878
    Desmograptus micronematodes Spencer, 1882
    Dictyonema crassibasale Gurley, 1909
    Dictyonema gracilis Hall, 1852
    Dictyonema retiforme (Hall, 1843)
    Inocaulis ramulosus Spencer, 1882)
    Undetermined GRA01
    Undetermined GRA02


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    • Coral (3)
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