BCVS1-3, Buffalo Creek, Wanakah Shale, Erie Co., NY: Givetian, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cypricardella bellistriata Conrad 1842
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Trilobita - Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops boothi
Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops rana (Green 1832)
recombined as Eldredgeops rana
Tentaculita - Styliolinida - Styliolinidae
Styliolina fissurella (Hall 1879)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia umbonata Conrad 1842
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Mucrospirifer mucronatus (Conrad 1841)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella penelope
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Protoleptostrophia perplana (Conrad 1839)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Devonochonetes coronatus (Hall 1857)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
Megastrophia concava
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Erie
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 78.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° South, 26.1° 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
*Local age/stage:Erian
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:Buffalo Creek Local bed:1-3
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous,calcareous lime mudstone
Lithology description: argillaceous limestone
Environment:deep subtidal shelf Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8714
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-08-28 08:43:03 Last modified:2004-04-27 18:49:56
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
683. K. B. Miller. 1986. Depositional Environments and Sequences, "Pleurodictyum Zone," Ludlowville Formation of Western New York. In E. Landing, C. E. Brett (eds.), Dynamic Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part I, 457:57-77 [A. Miller/K. Layou/P. Wagner]