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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous mudstone

Collection methods: mechanical,

• this is a subset of the main faunal list for Locality 1 of Clement (1982); the author described the fauna for approximately 20cm thick section in main list, this list describes what was found in ten 100 square cm shale blocks that were quarried from the horizon of crinoid surface collecting (horizon B)

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 5620: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.11.1999

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