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 section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous mudstone and limestone

• 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. fossils were collected from a lens-shaped unit of argillaceous limestone.

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

• This is a main faunal list from Locality 1

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 5657: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.11.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Crinoidea
 Disparida - Anamesocrinidae
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
 Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
Eutaxocrinus whiteavesi Springer 1906 Sea lily
Blastoidea
 Pentremitida - Hyperoblastidae
Hyperoblastus sp. Fay 1961 blastoid
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
"Pholidops linguloides" = Craniops
"Pholidops linguloides" = Craniops
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
ramose bryozoan
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
orthocone nautiloids
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ostracoda
 Podocopida -
Euglyphella sp. Warthin 1934 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Ponderodictya sp. Coryell and Malkin 1936 ostracod
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi trilobite
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus dichotoma tabulate coral