Little Traverse Bay Region - L Petoskey brach list (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Michigan (42.3° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° S, 31.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: middle varcus conodont zone, Petoskey Formation (Traverse Group), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. C. Stumm. 1951. Check List of Fossil Invertebrates Described from the Middle Devonian Traverse Group of Michigan. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 9(1):1-44 [A. Miller/J. Zambito/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96298: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jay Zambito on 31.05.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta cf. erratica" = Strophomena (Strophodonta), "Stropheodonta cf. demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa
"Stropheodonta cf. erratica" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta cf. demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Elytha filicosta" = Elita
"Elytha filicosta" = Elita
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer sp. Grabau 1931
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae