BCVS1-3, Buffalo Creek, Wanakah Shale, Erie Co., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Erie County, New York (42.9° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 26.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; gray, argillaceous, calcareous lime mudstone

• argillaceous limestone

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: K. B. Miller. 1986. Depositional Environments and Sequences, "Pleurodictyum Zone," Ludlowville Formation of Western New York. In E. Landing, C. E. Brett (eds.), Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part I, 457:57-77 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8714: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842