Where: Erie County, New York (42.8° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 26.2° 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
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous mudstone
Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,
• This is the main faunal list for locality 2
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 5661: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.11.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral | |
Cladochonus dichotoma tabulate coral | |
Crinoidea | |
Cyttarocrinus sp. Goldring 1923 Sea lily | |
Aorocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily | |
Bactrocrinites fieldi Sea lily | |
Eutaxocrinus whiteavesi Springer 1906 Sea lily | |
Synaptocrinus nuntius Sea lily | |
Trilobita | |
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Euglyphella sp. Warthin 1934 ostracod | |
Ponderodictya sp. Coryell and Malkin 1936 ostracod | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Hederella sp. Hall 1883 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842
Spinocyrtia granulosa Conrad 1839 | |
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842 | |
Rhipidomella vanuxemi Hall 1857 | |
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Cyrtina hamiltonensis Hall 1857 | |
Nucleospira concinna Hall 1843 | |
Athyris spiriferoides Eaton 1831 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Retichonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Retichonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857 | |
Devonochonetes scitulus Hall 1857 | |
Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839 | |
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata Hall 1843 | |
Craniata | |
"Pholidops linguloides" = Craniops
"Pholidops linguloides" = Craniops | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites bellulus Hall 1876 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata, Platyceras sp.
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria), Cornellites flabella
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
Cornellites flabella oyster | |
Sedentaria | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 |