Chargin Shale, Bed 19 (top), Brecksville Reservation; Chippewa Creek (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ohio (41.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 30.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chargin Shale Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Listed as Late Famennian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, pyritic shale and lithified siltstone

• Greenish-gray to bluish-gray shales with some pyrite interbedded with discontinuous siltstones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection only includes brachiopods and bivalves, but text says brachiopods are "most abundant...with bivalves as a minor constituent of the total fauna" and formation is generally "sparsely fossiliferous"

Primary reference: B. A. Schwimmer and R. M. Feldmann. 1990. Stratigraphic distribution of brachiopods and bivalves in the Upper Devonian (Famennian) Chagrin Shale in the Cuyahoga River Valley, Northeast Ohio. Kirtlandia 45:7-31 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75049: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 17.09.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Centrorhynchus sp." = Sartenaerus
"Centrorhynchus sp." = Sartenaerus Özdikmen 2008
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp.
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp.
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Toryniferella sp.
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Aulacella sp.
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp., Athyris sp.
Composita sp. Brown 1849