Where: Genesee County, New York (42.9° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 25.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• 8 m below the Jaycox Shale

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby. 1994. Well-preserved specimens of the sponges Gondekia (Heteractinida) and Pseudohydnoceras (Hexactinellida), Middle Devonian of New York State. Journal of Paleontology 68(4):727-734 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111779: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.06.2011

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