Where: Erie County, New York (42.8° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 26.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Wanakah Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• the Ludlowville Formation is a member of the Hamilton Group; this is an Upper Wanakah Shale collection
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous mudstone
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• main faunal list for Locality 1 of Clement (1982)
Primary reference: C. R. Clement. 1982. The Occurrence and Paleoecology of Echinoderm Asseblages in the Ludlowville Shales (Middle Devonian) of western Erie County, New York. 1-110 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 5619: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.11.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Anamesocrinus lutheri Sea lily
Anamesocrinus spinobrachiatus Sea lily | |
Eutaxocrinus whiteavesi Springer 1906 Sea lily | |
Tentaculita | |
Styliolina fissurella Hall 1879 | |
Craniata | |
Petrocrania hamiltoniae Hall 1867 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata Hall 1843 | |
Devonochonetes scitulus Hall 1857 | |
Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842 | |
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 | |
Athyris spiriferoides Eaton 1831 | |
Cyrtina hamiltonensis Hall 1857 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957 | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Cornellites flubella oyster | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral | |
Cladochonus dichotoma tabulate coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Clionolithes sp. Clark 1908 demosponge |