Locality 1 (Wanakah Shale, Cazenovia Creek, NY) (Devonian of the United States)

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

• the wanakah is a dark gray fissile mudrock, 12-21 m thick, composed of approximately 97% clay, mostly illite and chlorite, with minor amounts of quartz silt and calcite.

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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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Crinoidea
 Disparida - Anamesocrinidae
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus sp. Hall 1860
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata Hall 1843
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
ramose bryozoan
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi trilobite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus dichotoma tabulate coral