Locality 3 (Lake Erie shore, Wanakah Shale, NY): Givetian, New York
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Pyrgiidae
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Cladochonus dichotoma
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Micheliniidae
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Pleurodictyum sp.
Goldfuss 1829
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Stereolasmatidae
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Stereolasma rectum
(Hall 1843)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Crinoidea
- Poteriocrinina
- Decadocrinidae
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Decadocrinus cf. ornatus
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula sp.
Lamarck 1799
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Modiomorpha sp.
Hall and Whitfield 1869
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1 specimen | |||||||||
unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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53 specimens | |||||||||
bifoliate (35), ramose (17), encrusting (1) | ||||||||||
Stenolaemata
- Fenestrata
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Fenestrata indet.
(Elias and Condra 1957)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
synonym of Fenestelloidea | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Rhipidomellidae
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Rhipidomella vanuxemi
(Hall 1857)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Athyris spiriferoides
(Eaton 1831)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Mucrospiriferidae
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Mucrospirifer mucronatus
(Conrad 1841)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Areostrophiidae
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Schuchertella arctostriata
(Hall 1843)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Floweria arctostriata | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Chonetidae
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Devonochonetes scitulus
(Hall 1857)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Tentaculitida
- Tentaculitidae
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Tentaculites sp.
von Schlotheim 1820
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Phacopidae
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Phacops rana
(Green 1832)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Eldredgeops rana | ||||||||||
cephalons (2), pygidia (1) | ||||||||||
see common names |
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: | 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: | mechanical,field collection |
Collection method comments: This collection is based on specimens from four 100 sq. cm shale blocks quarried out from the outcrop directly below the crinoid surface collecting horizon. |
Metadata
Database number: | 5669 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | C. Ferguson | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Subset of collection #: | 5667 | ||
Created: | 1999-11-15 10:08:06 | 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] |