BCVS1-5, 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, calcareous shale

• calcareous shale

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 8717: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
"Craniella hamiltoniae" = Petrocrania hamiltoniae
"Craniella hamiltoniae" = Petrocrania hamiltoniae Hall 1867
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
fenestrate bryozoan
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Hederellidae
Hederella sp. Hall 1883
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiomorpha sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis dichotoma tabulate coral
Aulocystis jacksoni tabulate coral