Olentangy Shale - Slate Run: Middle Devonian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta
Conodonta indet.
c category
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
r category
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Productella spinulicosta Hall 1857
r category
recombined as Spinulicosta spinulicosta
Strophomenata - Productida - Strophalosiidae
Strophalosia truncata
r category
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
Stropheodonta ? demissa (Conrad 1842)
r category
recombined as Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes ? aurora
c category
Chonetes ? mucronatus
c category
c category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia ? sp. Hall 1860
r category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
r category
Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites bellulus Hall 1876
a category
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Tornoceras sp. Hyatt 1884
r category
Tentaculita - Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolina fissurella (Hall 1879)
c category
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
c category
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora serpens Goldfuss 1829
r category
unclassified
Sporangites huronensis
aa category
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Franklin
Coordinates: 40.0° North, 83.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.3° South, 31.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Middle Devonian
Age range of interval:393.30000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Olentangy Shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue argillaceous "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: argillaceous blue shale and shaly limestone . . .thin layer of nodular limestone
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51855
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wall Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-06-27 12:55:52 Last modified:2005-06-27 15:55:52
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-27 12:55:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13801.1% C. R. Stauffer. 1938. The Fauna of the Typical Olentangy Shale. Journal of Geology 46:1075-1078 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/P. Wall]