Chagrin Shale of Ohio, emphasis on arthropods, loc. 8 (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Indian Point

Where: Lake County, Ohio (41.7° N, 81.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 29.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale and siltstone

Preservation: trace, concretion

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• arthropods from concretions

Primary reference: W. E. Weidner and R. M. Feldmann. 1985. Paleoecological interpretation of the echinocarid arthropod assemblages in the Late Devonian (Famennian) Chagrin Shale, Northeastern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 59(4):986-1004 [T. Olszewski/T. Olszewski/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3382: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 31.07.1999, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
 Athyridida - Parazygidae
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
originally entered as "Camarotoechia spp."
Polychaeta
  -
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
originally entered as "Nautiloidea "
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ptychopteria indet. Hall 1883 oyster
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca -