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
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 8715: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Bivalvia | |
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster | |
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Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839 | |
Devonochonetes coronatus Hall 1857 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 | |
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Lingulata | |
Anthozoa | |
Aulocystis dichotoma tabulate coral |