Chagrin Shale of Ohio, emphasis on arthropods, loc. 6: Famennian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
    = Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Hendy 2008
Nucula = Cretaceous-Recent
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
originally entered as "Camarotoechia spp."
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Polychaeta
Sphenothallus sp. Hall 1847
Malacostraca - Archaeostraca
Echinocaris sp.
Echinocaris multinodosa
Echinocaris ohioensis
Echinocaris sublevis
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
Palaeopalaemon sp. Whitfield 1880
unclassified
Rhizocorallium sp. Zenker 1836
Lingulichnus sp. Hakes 1976
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Ashtabula
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 80.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.9° South, 29.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Late/Upper Devonian
Stage:Famennian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 5
*Period:Late/Upper Devonian *Epoch:Famennian
Key time interval:Famennian
Age range of interval:372.20000 - 358.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chagrin Shale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples "shale"
Secondary lithology: siltstone
Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace,concretion
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: arthropods in concretions
Metadata
Also known as:Mill Creek
Database number:3380
Authorizer:T. Olszewski, A. Hendy Enterer:T. Olszewski, A. Hendy
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-31 12:27:36 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:10
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

190. W. E. Weidner and R. M. Feldmann. 1985. Paleoecological interpretation of the echinocarid arthropod assemblages in the Late Devonian (Famennian) Chagrin Shale, Northeastern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 59(4):986-1004 [T. Olszewski/T. Olszewski/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

26349 A. J. W. Hendy. 2008. Personal opinions and reidentification of pre-Cenozoic Mollusca. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]