Plum Brook Shale, Zone B; Pipe Creek (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ohio (41.0° N, 83.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° S, 30.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Plum Brook Shale Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Local series listed as Hamilton

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, blue, argillaceous limestone and poorly lithified shale

• Formation is predominantly shale
• Hard, blue-gray, argillaceous limestone within shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: 6 inch thick zone

Primary reference: E.C. Stumm. 1942. Fauna and stratigraphic relations of the Prout Limestone and Plum Brook Shale of northern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 16:549-563 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76565: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 23.11.2007, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Megistocrinus depressus Hall 1862 Sea lily
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
"Pleurotomaria planodorsalis" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata
"Pleurotomaria planodorsalis" = Calvibembexia sulcomarginata Conrad 1842 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
"Pleurotomaria rotalia" = Denayella rotalia
"Pleurotomaria rotalia" = Denayella rotalia Hall 1862 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia indenta Conrad 1842 clam
 Actinodontida - Nyassidae
Nyassa recta clam
"Characteristic species"
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
"Aviculopecten fasciculatus" = Pseudaviculopecten fasciculatus
"Aviculopecten fasciculatus" = Pseudaviculopecten fasciculatus Hall 1883 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria boydi Conrad 1842 oyster
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites triqueter clam
"Characteristic species"
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
 Cyclostomata - Hederellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
"Chonetes scitulus" = Devonochonetes scitulus, "Chonetes setigerus" = Hallinetes setigera, Chonetes deflectus
"Chonetes scitulus" = Devonochonetes scitulus Hall 1857
"Characteristic species"
"Chonetes setigerus" = Hallinetes setigera Hall 1843
"Characteristic species"
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer pennatus
Two subspecies: Spirifer pennatus and Spirifer pennatus arkonensis
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
"Characteristic species"
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
"Craniella hamiltonae" = Petrocrania hamiltoniae
"Craniella hamiltonae" = Petrocrania hamiltoniae Hall 1867
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
"Characteristic species"
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
 Palaeocopida - Bolliidae
Bollia sp. Jones and Holl 1886 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Barychilinidae
Barychilina sp. ostracod
Originally "Barychilinia sp." Assumed spelling error