Onondaga-Hollidaysburg community, Onondaga Fm. (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (40.4° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 41.0° S, 26.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Onondaga Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• "M. Dev (Eifelian)"

Environment/lithology: marine; green shale

• "greenish-buff blocky clay sh, 10' thick, overlying oriskany ss. very nearshore (BA1?)"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. M. Kindle. 1912. The Onondaga fauna of the Allegheny region. United States Geology Survey Bulletin 508:1-144 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 609: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 28.01.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Kindle, 1912"
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Cephalopoda
 Bactritida - Bactritidae
Bactrites sp.
Bactrites sp. Sandberger 1843
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonema sp.
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp.
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Anoplotheca sp.
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp.
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod