Lingula-Eurypterid Community at the Ilion Shale (Silurian to of the United States)

Where: New York (43.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° S, 40.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ilion Formation (Lockport Group), Wenlock to Wenlock (433.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• Age is based on the stratigraphic correlations of Zenger, 1965.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, black, gray shale

• sheltered inner lagoonal to tidal flat setting
• dark gray to nearly black, platy shale

Primary reference: C. E. Brett. 1999. Wenlockian fossil communities in New York State and adjacent areas: Paleontology and Paleoecology. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities: A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 592-637 [M. Foote/K. Koverman/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12931: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Kimberly Koverman on 10.01.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Eurypterid identity from ref. 4261 (Plotnick 1999), locality 21.
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites spp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Scyphozoa
 Conulariida - Conulariidae
Conularia sp. jellyfish
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
Dizygopleura sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
Dizygopleura sp. aff. D. swartzi
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Herrmannina sp. Kegel 1933 ostracod
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Eurypteridae
Eurypterus remipes DeKay 1825 eurypterid
subsp. flintstonenesis
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella spp. Kozlowski 1946
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
? Homoeospira sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Pyrenomoeus cuneatus Hall 1852 clam
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria ? subplana" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria), Cornellites sp.
"Leiopteria ? subplana" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster
Cornellites sp. Williams 1908 oyster