Big Creek, Chagrin shale (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Lake County, Ohio (41.7° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 29.3° W)

When: Chagrin Shale Formation, Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• Late Devonian (Fammenian) Chagrin Shale

Environment/lithology: offshore; shale

• Dysoxic setting
• Flaggy grey shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Marcus C. Garland

Primary reference: R.M. Feldmann and C.E. Schweitzer. 2019. The oldest fossil axiid (Decopoda: Pleocyemata: Axiidea), from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Chagrin Shale Member of the Ohio Shale, USA. 1-5 [C. Schweitzer/H. Grimmett]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225952: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Holly Grimmett on 09.06.2022, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall

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Taxonomic list

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Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca -
Echinocaris multispinosus, Echinocaris ohioensis, Echinocaris multinodosa, Echinocaris sublevis
Echinocaris multispinosus Feldmann and McKenzie 1981
Echinocaris ohioensis Sturgeon et al. 1964
Echinocaris multinodosa Whitfield 1880
Echinocaris sublevis Whitfield 1880
 Archaeostraca - Ohiocarididae
Ohiocaris wycoffi
Ohiocaris wycoffi Rolfe 1962
 Decapoda - Axiidae
Devonoaxius garlandi n. gen. n. sp.
Devonoaxius garlandi n. gen. n. sp. Feldmann and Schweitzer 2019 decapod
 Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
Palaeopalaemon newberryi
Palaeopalaemon newberryi Whitfield 1880 decapod