BCVS1-10, 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 8725: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.08.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis dichotoma tabulate coral
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Retispira leda Hall 1859 snail
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia indenta Conrad 1842 clam
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
fenestrate and ramose forms
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae