PBDB Collection

Locality 4, Penn Dixie quarry, Moscow and Ludlowville Formations, Erie Co., NY (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Erie County, New York (42.8° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 26.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• samples not specified as from Wanakah, Tichenor, or Windom 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 9364: 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

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Bivalvia
Nuculanida - Cucullellidae	Nuculites triqueter, Nuculites oblongatus Nuculites triqueter clam x Nuculites oblongatus Conrad 1841 clam x
Nuculanida - Malletiidae	Palaeoneilo sp., Palaeoneilo constricta Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam x [entered as Paleoneilo sp.] Palaeoneilo constricta Conrad 1842 clam x [entered as Paleoneilo constricta]
Nuculida - Nuculidae	Nuculoidea corbuliformis Nuculoidea corbuliformis Hall and Whitfield 1869 nut clam a
Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae	Pholadella radiata Pholadella radiata clam x
Cardiidia - Grammysiidae	Grammysia arcuata Grammysia arcuata Conrad 1841 clam x
Cardiida - Kalenteridae	Modiella pygmaea Modiella pygmaea clam x
Pectinida - Pectinoidae	"Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae "Pectenidae indet." = Pectinidae Wilkes 1810 scallop a
Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae	Buchiola sp. Buchiola sp. Barrande 1881 clam x
Rhynchonellata
Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae	Eumetabolotoechia sp. Eumetabolotoechia sp. r
Spiriferida - Delthyrididae	Delthyris sp. Delthyris sp. Dalman 1828 r
Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae	Ambocoelia umbonata Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842 a
Spiriferida - Adolfiidae	Allanella tullius Allanella tullius Hall 1867 r?
Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae	Mediospirifer audaculus Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842 x
- Tropidoleptidae	Tropidoleptus carinatus Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839 a
Strophomenata
Strophomenida - Chonetidae	Longispina mucronatus, Devonochonetes scitulus Longispina mucronatus x Devonochonetes scitulus Hall 1857 c
Stenolaemata
Cyclostomata - Reptariidae	Reptaria stolonifera Reptaria stolonifera Rolle 1851 x
Cyclostomata - Hederellidae	Hederella sp. Hederella sp. Hall 1883 r
Cryptostomata - Palescharidae	Paleschara radiata Paleschara radiata c
Anthozoa
Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae	Stereolasma rectum Stereolasma rectum Hall 1843 horn coral r
Favositida - Micheliniidae	Pleurodictyum stylopora Pleurodictyum stylopora tabulate coral r