BCVS3-13, 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; concretionary, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• pseudoconcretionary carbonate bed, the limestone bodies of this bed are typically lenticular with a relatively uniform thickness of about 10 cm; the larger lenses assume the appearance of discontinuous limestone beds; where they are closely spaced, the bioclastic wackestone to packstone lenses frequently grade laterally into a thin fossiliferous nodular layer

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
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi Green 1837 trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana
"Phacops rana" = Eldredgeops rana Green 1832 trilobite
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
fenestrate, massive, encrusting, and ramose forms
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Terebratulida - Cryptonellidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Sapphicorhynchidae
"Camarotoechia sappho" = Sapphicorhynchus sappho
"Camarotoechia sappho" = Sapphicorhynchus sappho Hall 1860
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata, Platyceras sp.
"Naticonema lineata" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
"Trachypora romingeri" = Thamnoptychia
"Trachypora romingeri" = Thamnoptychia tabulate coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis commensalis tabulate coral
Aulocystis cooperi tabulate coral