Locality 2 (Wanakah Shale, Smokes Creek, NY): Givetian, New York

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Camerata indet. Wachsmuth and Springer 1885
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Hapalocrinidae
Cyttarocrinus eriensis
8 specimens
Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Gilbertsocrinus spinigerous
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Zostocrinus ornatus
2 specimens
unclassified
Syaptocrinus nintius
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Decadocrinus multinodosus
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Botryocrinidae
Botryocrinus sentosus Goldring 1923
1 specimen
Ancyrocrinus bulbosus Hall 1862
1 specimen
Crinoidea
Kophinocrinus spiniferous
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New York County:Erie
Coordinates: 42.8° North, 78.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.6° South, 26.2° 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
*Period:Middle Devonian *Epoch:Middle Middle Devonian
*Local age/stage:Tioughniogan
Key time interval: Givetian
Age range of interval: 387.7 - 382.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ludlowville Member:Wanakah
Local section:Smokes Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The Ludlowville Formation is a member of the Hamilton Group, this is an upper Wanakah section
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray argillaceous mudstone
Lithology description: the wanakah is a dark gray fissile mudrock, 12-21 m thick, composed of approximately 97% clay, mostly illite and chlorite, with minor amounts of quartz silt and calcite.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Collection method comments: This is one of two crinoid lists for locality 2, taken from different fossiliferous horizons.
Metadata
Database number:5663
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Ferguson Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:5661
Created:1999-11-10 11:08:37 Last modified:2004-04-27 18:49:56
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

347. C. R. Clement. 1982. The Occurrence and Paleoecology of Echinoderm Asseblages in the Ludlowville Shales (Middle Devonian) of western Erie County, New York. 1-110 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]