Locality 3 (Lake Erie shore, Wanakah Shale, NY): Givetian, New York
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Steriolasma rectum
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Pterobranchia
- Dendroidea
- Acanthograptidae
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Dictyonema hamiltoniae
Hall 1865
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Tentaculita
- Styliolinida
- Styliolinidae
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Styliolina fissurella
(Hall 1879)
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Cephalopoda
- Pseudorthocerida
- Spyroceratidae
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Spyroceras nuntium
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Platyceratidae
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Naticonema lineata
(Conrad 1842)
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| corrected as Platyostoma lineata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Malletiidae
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Palaeoneilo sp.
Hall and Whitfield 1869
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
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Cypricardella sp.
Hall 1856
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Cornellites flabella
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Leiorhynchidae
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Leiorhynchus limitare
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Mucrospiriferidae
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Mucrospirifer mucronatus
(Conrad 1841)
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Ambocoeliidae
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Ambocoelia umbonata
Conrad 1842
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Athyris spiriferoides
(Eaton 1831)
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Rhynchonellata
- Tropidoleptidae
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Tropidoleptus carinatus
(Conrad 1839)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Rhipidomellidae
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Rhipidomella vanuxemi
(Hall 1857)
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Cryptonellidae
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Cryptonella rectirostra
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Leptostrophiidae
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Protoleptostrophia perplana
(Conrad 1839)
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Douvillinidae
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Douvillina inaequistriata
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Chonetidae
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Devonochonetes scitulus
(Hall 1857)
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Areostrophiidae
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Schuchertella arctostriata
(Hall 1843)
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unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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| bifoliate, encrusting, ramose | ||||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Fenestrata
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Fenestrata indet.
(Elias and Condra 1957)
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| synonym of Fenestelloidea | ||||||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Phacopidae
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Phacops rana
(Green 1832)
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| recombined as Eldredgeops rana | ||||||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Acastidae
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Greenops boothi
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Healdiidae
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Ponderodictya sp.
Coryell and Malkin 1936
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Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Micheliniidae
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Michelinia stylopora
Eaton 1876
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Pleurodictyum sp.
Goldfuss 1829
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Pyrgiidae
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Cladochonus dichotoma
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New York | County: | Erie |
| Coordinates: | 42.8° North, 78.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.5° South, 26.3° 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: | 387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ludlowville | Member: | Wanakah | ||
| Local section: | Lake Erie shore | Local bed: | fossiliferous zone under Layer A | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The Ludlowville Fm. is part of the Hamilton Group. This is a lower Wanakah Shale collection. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray argillaceous mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| 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: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected) |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5668 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-11-15 09:55:46 | 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] |