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 3457: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.08.1999, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Archaeogastropoda sp. Thiele 1925 snail originally entered as "Pleurotomaria" sp." [entered as Archaeogastropod sp.]
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"Tropidodiscus cyrtolites" = Vorticina cyrtolites
"Tropidodiscus cyrtolites" = Vorticina cyrtolites Hall 1858 snail | |
""Bellerophontoidea" indet." = Bellerophontoidea
""Bellerophontoidea" indet." = Bellerophontoidea M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula meeki Herrick 1888 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920 | |
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Strophomenata | |
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Rugosochonetes sp. Sokolskaja 1950 |