Locality 27, Fayette Town Quarry/Dump, Levanna Member, Skaneateles Formation, Se (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Seneca County, New York (42.8° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° S, 24.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Levanna Member (Skaneateles Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• samples from the upper part of the Levanna Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; pyritic, shelly/skeletal, black, gray shale

• dark gray to black, hard, brittle clay shale which weathers to a chippy or papery consistency; fissility is well developed, and in some instances, very thin silty or shelly laminae are visible

Preservation: original aragonite, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: C. E. Brett, V. B. Dick, and G. C. Baird. 1991. Comparative Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Middle Devonian Dark Gray and Black Shale Facies from 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 II 469:5-36 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9353: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 23.10.2000

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Taxonomic list

• relative abundance symbols: a = abundant, 10s to 100s of specimens; c = commonly found, 10s of specimens; x = present, fewer than 10 specimens found; r = rare, usually only a single specimen found; ? = identification questionable
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Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
x
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolina fissurella
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras uniangulare
Tornoceras uniangulare Conrad 1842 ammonite
x
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras ? sp.
Michelinoceras ? sp. Foerste 1932
x
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Glyptotomaria sp.
Glyptotomaria sp. Knight 1945 snail
x [entered as Glytotomaria sp.]
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae
Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Hall 1859 snail
x
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp.
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
x
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Pterochaenia fragilis
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Echinocoelia sp. n. sp.
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer mucronatus
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia ? sp.
Camarotoechia ? sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
c [entered as Camaroetoechia sp.]
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Eumetabolotoechia multicostum" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata
"Eumetabolotoechia multicostum" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata Hall 1860
a
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Longispina mucronatus, Devonochonetes sp.
Devonochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
x
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp.
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
r