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
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 8725: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral | |
Aulocystis dichotoma tabulate coral | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Trilobita | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Retispira leda Hall 1859 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cypricardinia indenta Conrad 1842 clam | |
Bryozoa | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Athyris spiriferoides Eaton 1831 | |
Spinocyrtia granulosa Conrad 1839
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839 | |
Devonochonetes coronatus Hall 1857 | |