Also known as Wanakah Shale / Darien Center Submember

Where: New York (43.0° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.3° S, 26.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Wanakah Shale / Darien Center Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Listed as Givetian, Trilobite Beds 5

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; poorly lithified, gray shale and lithified, concretionary, argillaceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: R. J. Batt. 1995. A test of a new technique illustrating faunal dominance trends: Application to the “Trilobite Beds” interval of the Middle Devonian Wanakah Shale in western New York. Lethaia 28:245-258 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74984: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 13.09.2007

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