Locality 28, Bloomer/Mack Creeks, Windom Member, Moscow Formation, Seneca Co., N (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Seneca County, New York (42.7° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 24.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Windom Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• samples from the middle part of the Windom 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 9355: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 23.10.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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
Crinoidea
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Decadocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1879 Sea lily
r
Tentaculita
 Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
r
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
x
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata
"Schuchertella arctostriata" = Floweria arctostriata Hall 1843
r
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
Allanella tullius Hall 1867
c
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata, "Ambocoelia ? praeumbona" = Emanuella praeumbona
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
c
"Ambocoelia ? praeumbona" = Emanuella praeumbona Hall 1857
a
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Eumetabolotoechia multicostum" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata
"Eumetabolotoechia multicostum" = Eumetabolotoechia multicostata Hall 1860
a
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Reptariidae
Reptaria stolonifera Rolle 1851
r
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras uniangulare Conrad 1842 ammonite
x
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras ? sp. Foerste 1932
x
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Retispira leda Hall 1859 snail
x
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
Palaeozygopleura hamiltoniae Hall 1859 snail
x
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Glyptotomaria sp. Knight 1945 snail
x [entered as Glytotomaria sp.]
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
x
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
x
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi trilobite
r