marcasite horizon, Ludlowville Formation, marcasite concretion fauna, western NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Erie/Genesee County, New York (42.9° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 25.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ledyard Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; concretionary, pyritic carbonate

• pyrite concretion horizon

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: D. W. Fisher. 1951. Marcasite fauna in the Ludlowville Formation of western New York. Journal of Paleontology 25(3):365-371 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10459: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 18.04.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Author does not define relative abundance designations, but I assume they are similar to a rare, common, abundant scale. Values given are: c, r, rc, cc, rr and are recorded in the comments field.
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Hyperoblastidae
Devonoblastus sp. Reimann 1935 blastoid
rr
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolina fissurella Hall 1879
rr
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840
c
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
"Productella spinulicosta" = Spinulicosta spinulicosta
"Productella spinulicosta" = Spinulicosta spinulicosta Hall 1857
r
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes setigerus" = Hallinetes setigera, "Chonetes scitulus" = Devonochonetes scitulus
"Chonetes setigerus" = Hallinetes setigera Hall 1843
rc
"Chonetes scitulus" = Devonochonetes scitulus Hall 1857
r
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
"Chonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Chonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857
cc
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
c
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
"Brachyspirifer audaculus" = Mediospirifer audaculus
"Brachyspirifer audaculus" = Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842
rr
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
Nucleospira concinna Hall 1843
rr
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris spiriferoides Eaton 1831
rr
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
rr
Tornoceras uniangulare Conrad 1842 ammonite
cc
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Spyroceras sp. Hyatt 1884
c
 Bactritida - Bactritidae
Bactrites sp. Sandberger 1843
r
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Cyrtolites sp. Conrad 1838
r
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bucanopsis leda" = Retispira leda
"Bucanopsis leda" = Retispira leda Hall 1859 snail
r
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
"Loxonema hamiltoniae" = Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae, "Loxonema delphicola" = Palaeozygopleura delphicola
"Loxonema hamiltoniae" = Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Hall 1859 snail
cc
"Loxonema delphicola" = Palaeozygopleura delphicola Hall 1860 snail
r
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata
"Bembexia sulcomarginata" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata Conrad 1842 snail
rc
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Diaphorostoma lineata" = Platyostoma lineata
"Diaphorostoma lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
r
 Euomphalina -
Serpulospira laxus Hall 1859 snail
rr
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam
r [entered as Palelneilo constricta]
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula corbuliformis" = Nuculoidea corbuliformis
"Nucula corbuliformis" = Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
rc
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia arcuata Conrad 1841 clam
r
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Ostracoda
 Hollinocopida - Primitiopsidae
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca -
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Dipleura dekayi Green 1832 trilobite
rr
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
c
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi trilobite
r
Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Conularia sp. jellyfish
rr
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
Heliophyllum sp. Hall 1846 horn coral
r
unclassified
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Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
rr