Lehigh Valley, Painted Ore (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (40.8° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° S, 23.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hazard Member (Selinsgrove Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• Painted ore beds are from the Hazard member of the Selinsgrove Formation (Willard 1957: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 41(10):2298-2311). This is basal and thus probably equivalent to the Edgecliff.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous limestone and shale

• gray, argillaceous limestone with shale partings

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Willard and L. Whitcomb. 1938. Onondaga Paint-Ore Fauna from Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 12(5):511-513 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232686: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.12.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites limitaris Rominger 1876 tabulate coral
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea "columnals" Miller 1821 Sea lily
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Diaphorostoma lineatum" = Platyostoma lineata
"Diaphorostoma lineatum" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula ligea Hall 1867
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Pentamerella arata Conrad 1841
Pentamarella arata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Rhynchonellida -
"Anoplotheca acutiplicata" = Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata
"Anoplotheca acutiplicata" = Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata Conrad 1841
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
"Chonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Chonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857
 Strophomenida - Eodevonariidae
"Chonetes arcuatus" = Eodevonaria arcuata
"Chonetes arcuatus" = Eodevonaria arcuata Hall 1857
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
"Leptostrophia perplana" = Protoleptostrophia perplana
"Leptostrophia perplana" = Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena cf. rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Stropheodonta inequistriata" = Strophomena (Strophodonta), "Stropheodonta patersoni" = Strophomena (Strophodonta), "Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa, Stropheodonta ? concava
"Stropheodonta inequistriata" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta patersoni" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
"Pholidops sp." = Craniops
"Pholidops sp." = Craniops Hall 1859
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Bolliidae
Bollia sp. Jones and Holl 1886 ostracod
Bolia sp.
Ulrichia sp. Jones 1890 ostracod
Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
"Acidaspis callicera" = Kettneraspis callicera
"Acidaspis callicera" = Kettneraspis callicera Hall and Clarke 1888 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
"Phacops pipa" = Viaphacops pipa, "Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus, Phacops sp.
"Phacops pipa" = Viaphacops pipa Hall and Clarke 1888 trilobite
Phacops cristata var. pipa Hall and Clarke Phacops rana
"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus Hall 1861 trilobite
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Phaetonides gemmaeus" = Prionopeltis
"Phaetonides gemmaeus" = Prionopeltis trilobite
Phaethanides gemmaeus
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
"Cyphaspis minuscula" = Maurotarion minuscula
"Cyphaspis minuscula" = Maurotarion minuscula Hall 1876 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Conolichas eriopis" = Echinolichas eriopis
"Conolichas eriopis" = Echinolichas eriopis Hall 1863 trilobite