18 mile creek and Lake Shore Road Wanakah: Givetian, New York
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Ambocoeliidae
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Ambocoelia umbonata
Conrad 1842
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44 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New York | County: | Erie |
| Coordinates: | 42.7° North, 79.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.6° South, 26.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Devonian | Epoch: | Middle Devonian |
| Stage: | Givetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Devonian 3 |
| Key time interval: | Givetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 387.7 - 382.7 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Hamilton | Formation: | Ludlowville | Member: | Wanakah |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified mudstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified argillaceous wackestone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 76333 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Ivany | Enterer: | P. Wall |
| Modifier: | P. Wall | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-19 10:37:27 | Last modified: | 2007-11-19 12:54:59 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-19 10:37:27 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25859. | D. Goldman and C. E. Mitchell. 1990. Morphology, Systematics, and Evolution of Middle Devonian Ambocoeliidae (Brachiopoda), Western New York. Journal of Paleontology 64(1):79-99 [L. Ivany/P. Wall] |