Paine's Creek at LeRoy, Chagrin Fm.: Famennian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Nautiloida indet.
3 specimens
nautiloids
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes
cf. Holoptychus sp. (Agassiz 1843)
1 specimen
original and current combination Holoptychius
originally entered as "cf. Holoptychius sp."
Coelacanthimorpha
Chagrinia sp. Schaeffer 1962
1 specimen
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. Bruguiére 1797
12 specimens
Lingulata - Acrotretida
Acrotretida indet. Kuhn 1949
3 specimens
orbiculoids
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
cf. Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
10 specimens
originally entered as "cf. Chonetes sp."
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
cf. Ambocoelia sp. Hall 1860
5 specimens
originally entered as "cf. Ambocoelia sp."
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
4 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Parazygidae
Parazyga sp.
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
12 specimens
rhynchonellid - originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
28 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
cf. Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883
1 specimen
originally entered as "cf. Ptychopteria sp."
Malacostraca - Phyllocarida
Phyllocarida indet. Packard 1879
44 specimens
echinocarids
Malacostraca - Archaeostraca - Rhinocarididae
Dithyrocaris sp.
1 specimen
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
Palaeopalaemon sp. Whitfield 1880
8 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Lake
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 81.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° South, 29.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Late/Upper Devonian
Stage:Famennian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 5
*Period:Late/Upper Devonian
Key time interval:Famennian
Age range of interval:372.20000 - 358.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chagrin Shale
Stratigraphy comments: "U. Dev"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:hematitic,gray "shale"
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Geology comments: "gray, ironstone concretions in gray shale matrix. nearshore? cratonic, adjacent to Appalachian Basin. BA2"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"R.M. Feldmann and S. McKenzie. 1981. Echinocaris multispinosa a new echinocarid (Phyllocarida) from the Chagrin Fm. (late Dev) of Ohio. J.Paleo. 55:383-388"
Metadata
Database number:653
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-04-06 17:30:01 Last modified:2017-01-07 19:16:00
Access level:the public Released:1999-04-06 17:30:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
61160. R. M. Feldmann and S. McKenzie. 1981. Echinocaris multispinosa a new echinocarid (Phyllocarida) from the Chagrin Formation. (late Devonian) of Ohio. Journal of Paleontology 55:383-388 [M. Uhen/J. Ju]