Wanakah Shale - 18 mile creek, Lake Erie (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Erie County, New York (42.7° N, 79.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 26.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wanakah Member (Ludlowville Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Primary reference: D. Goldman and C. E. Mitchell. 1990. Morphology, Systematics, and Evolution of Middle Devonian Ambocoeliidae (Brachiopoda), Western New York. Journal of Paleontology 64(1):79-99 [L. Ivany/P. Wall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76332: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Patrick Wall on 19.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurispina nana Grabau 1899