Big Creek, Chagrin shale: Famennian, Ohio
collected by Marcus C. Garland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Axiidae
Devonoaxius garlandi n. gen., n. sp. Feldmann and Schweitzer 2019
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
Palaeopalaemon newberryi Whitfield 1880
Malacostraca - Archaeostraca - Ohiocarididae
Ohiocaris wycoffi Rolfe 1962
Malacostraca - Archaeostraca
Echinocaris multispinosus Feldmann and McKenzie 1981
Echinocaris ohioensis Sturgeon et al. 1964
Echinocaris multinodosa Whitfield 1880
Echinocaris sublevis Whitfield 1880
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Lake
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 81.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.9° South, 29.3° West
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Late Devonian
Stage: Famennian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 5
Key time interval: Famennian
Age range of interval: 372.2 - 358.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chagrin Shale
Stratigraphy comments: Late Devonian (Fammenian) Chagrin Shale
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: Flaggy grey shale
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: Dysoxic setting
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Marcus C. Garland
Metadata
Database number:225952
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer, P. Novack-Gottshall Enterer:H. Grimmett, P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:P. Novack-Gottshall
Created:2022-06-09 10:26:48 Last modified:2024-08-13 11:21:29
Access level:the public Released:2022-06-09 10:26:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

81853. R.M. Feldmann and C.E. Schweitzer. 2019. The oldest fossil axiid (Decopoda: Pleocyemata: Axiidea), from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Chagrin Shale Member of the Ohio Shale, USA. 1-5 [C. Schweitzer/H. Grimmett]