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; concretionary, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone
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 8728: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 28.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite | |
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite | |
Bryozoa | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Cyrtina hamiltonensis Hall 1857 | |
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 | |
Mucrospirifer mucronatus Conrad 1841 | |
Athyris spiriferoides Eaton 1831 | |
"Camarotoechia sappho" = Sapphicorhynchus sappho
"Camarotoechia sappho" = Sapphicorhynchus sappho Hall 1860 | |
Strophomenata | |
Devonochonetes coronatus Hall 1857 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata, Platyceras sp.
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Bivalvia | |
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster | |
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Anthozoa | |
"Trachypora romingeri" = Thamnoptychia
"Trachypora romingeri" = Thamnoptychia tabulate coral | |
Pleurodictyum americanum tabulate coral | |
Aulocystis commensalis tabulate coral
Aulocystis cooperi tabulate coral |