Doan Brook Sample Bed 3 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Cuyahoga County, Ohio (41.5° N, 81.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° S, 29.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bedford Shale Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty shale

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. C. Pashin and F. R. Ettensohn. 1992. Paleoecology and sedimentology of the dysaerobic Bedford fauna (Late Devonian), Ohio and Kentucky (USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 91:21-34 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3452: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.08.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
"Tropidodiscus cyrtolites" = Vorticina cyrtolites
"Tropidodiscus cyrtolites" = Vorticina cyrtolites Hall 1858 snail
 Bellerophontida -
""Bellerophontoidea" indet." = Bellerophontoidea
""Bellerophontoidea" indet." = Bellerophontoidea M'Coy 1851 snail
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865
originally entered as "Rhynchopora" sp."
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rugosochonetes sp. Sokolskaja 1950