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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Anamesocrinus lutheri Sea lily
Anamesocrinus spinobrachiatus n. sp. Sea lily | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Craniata | |
Petrocrania hamiltoniae Hall 1867 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Athyris spiriferoides Eaton 1831 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839 | |
Devonochonetes scitulus Hall 1857 | |
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata Hall 1843 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Greenops boothi trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral | |
Cladochonus dichotoma tabulate coral |