BCVS1-8, 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 8723: 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
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia indenta Conrad 1842 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
fenestrate and ramose
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis commensalis tabulate coral
Aulocystis dichotoma tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae