Locality 20, Wheeler Gully, Moscow and Ludlowville Formations, Livingston Co., N (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Livingston County, New York (42.8° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° S, 25.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• samples not specified as from Centerfield, Ledyard, Wanakah, Jaycox, Tichenor, Deep Run, Menteth or Kashong members

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; bioturbated, pyritic, gray, calcareous mudstone

• soft, medium gray, slightly calcareous, siliciclastic mudstones, geographically widespread beds of carbonate or pyritic concretions and fossil layers occur at many levels

Preservation: trace, concretion, original calcite, 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 9362: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 24.10.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Relative abundance symbols listed in comments field are as follows: a = abundant, 10s to 100s of specimens; c = commonly found, 10s of specimens; x = present, fewer than 10 specimens; r = rare, usually only one specimen; ? = identification questionable
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam
x
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
x [entered as Paleoneilo sp.]
Rhynchonellata
  - Tropidoleptidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
c
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
Allanella tullius Hall 1867
r?
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
Spinocyrtia granulosa Conrad 1839
x