Locality 2 (Wanakah Shale, Smokes Creek, NY): Givetian, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stereolasmatidae
Stereolasma rectum (Hall 1843)
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Sagenocrinida - Icthyocrinidae
Synaptocrinus nuntius
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida
Pterioidea indet. Gray 1847
4 specimens
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Naticonema lineata (Conrad 1842)
3 specimens
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840
4 specimens
unclassified
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
178 specimens
Bifoliate (177), ramose (1)
Stenolaemata - Fenestrata
Fenestrata indet. (Elias and Condra 1957)
9 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Leiorhynchus limitare
2 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis (Linnaeus 1758)
6 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella vanuxemi (Hall 1857)
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina hamiltonensis (Hall 1857)
5 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
Spinocyrtia granulosa (Conrad 1839)
10 specimens
Mediospirifer angustus
2 specimens
Mediospirifer audaculus (Conrad 1842)
1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer mucronatus (Conrad 1841)
117 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
Elytha fimbriata
6 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus carinatus (Conrad 1839)
1 specimen
Strophomenata - Productida - Araksalosiidae
Truncalosia truncata
2 specimens
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Areostrophiidae
Schuchertella arctostriata (Hall 1843)
16 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Douvillina inaequistriata
7 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Protoleptostrophia perplana (Conrad 1839)
2 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Devonochonetes scitulus (Hall 1857)
52 specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Anopliidae
Retichonetes lepidus (Hall 1857)
1 specimen
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Crania crenistriata Hall 1860
1 specimen
Craniata - Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Pholidops linguloides
1 specimen
Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
1 specimen
Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops rana (Green 1832)
6 specimens
cephalon (4), pygidia (2)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Erie
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 78.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.6° South, 26.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Middle Devonian
Stage: Givetian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 3
*Period:Middle Devonian *Epoch:Middle Middle Devonian
*Local age/stage:Tioughniogan
Key time interval: Givetian
Age range of interval: 387.7 - 382.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ludlowville Member:Wanakah
Local section:Smokes Creek Local bed:lower layer
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The Ludlowville Formation is a member of the Hamilton Group, this is an upper Wanakah section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous mudstone
Lithology description: the wanakah is a dark gray fissile mudrock, 12-21 m thick, composed of approximately 97% clay, mostly illite and chlorite, with minor amounts of quartz silt and calcite.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:mechanical,field collection
Collection method comments: This is one of three quarried collections; it is from the lower layer, and is from seven 100 square cm quarried shale blocks.
Metadata
Database number:5664
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:5661
Created:1999-11-10 12:10:36 Last modified:2004-04-27 18:49:56
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

347. C. R. Clement. 1982. The Occurrence and Paleoecology of Echinoderm Asseblages in the Ludlowville Shales (Middle Devonian) of western Erie County, New York. 1-110 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]