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 one of two crinoid lists for locality 2, taken from different fossiliferous horizons.

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 5662: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.11.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Hapalocrinidae
Cyttarocrinus eriensis
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Aorocrinus sp.
Aorocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Dendrocrinidae
Bactrocrinites fieldi
 Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
Eutaxocrinus whiteavesi
Eutaxocrinus whiteavesi Springer 1906 Sea lily
 Sagenocrinida - Icthyocrinidae
Synaptocrinus nuntius