Locality 2 (Wanakah Shale, Smokes Creek, NY) (Devonian of the United States)

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

• 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: 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
  -
Crinoidea
 Sagenocrinida - Icthyocrinidae
 Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
Eutaxocrinus whiteavesi Springer 1906 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Dendrocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Hapalocrinidae
Cyttarocrinus sp. Goldring 1923 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Aorocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
"Pholidops linguloides" = Craniops
"Pholidops linguloides" = Craniops
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata Hall 1843
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
"Retichonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Retichonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
"Elytha fimbriata" = Elita
"Elytha fimbriata" = Elita
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
 Athyridida - Nucleospiridae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
ramose, bifoliate, encrusting
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Hederellidae
Hederella sp. Hall 1883
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp., "Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
"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
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Ponderodictya sp. Coryell and Malkin 1936 ostracod
 Podocopida -
Euglyphella sp. Warthin 1934 ostracod
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus dichotoma tabulate coral