Silica Formation Unit 19 (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ohio (41.7° N, 83.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° S, 31.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Silica Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, argillaceous limestone

• Overall sequence: Bioclastic limestone; argillaceous limestone; shale. This unit: "limestone, massive, slightly argillaceous, hard. Base containing phosphate nodules and comminuted fish bones; basal surface preserving casts of trails from uppermost surface of underlying unit"

Primary reference: R. V. Kesling and R. B. Chilman. 1975. Strata and megafossils of the Middle Devonian Silica Formation. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 8:1-408 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 38470: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta spp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta spp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Hederellidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestrellina spp. d'Orbigny 1849