Gowanda (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Cattaraugus County, New York (42.5° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° S, 26.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gowanda Shale Formation (Canadaway Group), Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• Early Famennian, Early Nehdenian, UD II-C

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• outer shelf.
• soft shale

Reposited in the YPM

Primary reference: J. M. Clarke. 1904. Naples fauna in western New York, pt. 2. New York State Museum Memoirs 6:199-454 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84701: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.11.2008

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
"Praecardium vetustum" = Vetupraeca vetusta
"Praecardium vetustum" = Vetupraeca vetusta Hall 1843 clam
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Hippocardiidae
"Conocardium gowandense n. sp." = Bieberiana gowandense
"Conocardium gowandense n. sp." = Bieberiana gowandense Clarke 1904