Sylvania Community, Sylvania Sandstone (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Ohio (41.6° N, 83.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.8° S, 30.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Sylvania Sandstone Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• "L. Dev (Emsian?)"

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; sandstone

• "white qtz ss and dolomitic ss; above unconformity. transition beds. nearshore (BA1). cratonic"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. E. Carman. 1936. Sylvania Sandstone of Northwestern Ohio. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 47:253-266 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 604: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 28.01.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "J.E. Carman, 1936. Sylvania ss of NW Ohio. GSA Bull 47:253-266" Sepkoski list replaced with Carman's by PJW3.
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Hippocardiidae
"Conocardium monroicum" = Hippocardia monroica
"Conocardium monroicum" = Hippocardia monroica Sherzer and Grabau 1910
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
"Solenospira minuta" = Murchisonia minuta, "Hormotoma tricarinata" = Murchisonia anderdoniae, "Hormotoma subcarinata" = Murchisonia subcarinata
"Solenospira minuta" = Murchisonia minuta Grabau and Sherzer 1910 snail
"Hormotoma tricarinata" = Murchisonia anderdoniae Linsley 1968 snail
"Hormotoma subcarinata" = Murchisonia subcarinata Sherzer and Grabau 1910 snail
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
"Loxonema parva" = Palaeozygopleura parvula
"Loxonema parva" = Palaeozygopleura parvula Whitfield 1882 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"Acanthonema holopiformis" = Acanthonema holopiforme
"Acanthonema holopiformis" = Acanthonema holopiforme Sherzer and Grabau 1910 snail
 Euomphalina - Omphalotrochidae
"Trochonema ovoides" = Trochonemopsis meekanum
"Trochonema ovoides" = Trochonemopsis meekanum Miller 1889 snail
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Eridophyllidae
"Cylindrohelium profundum" = Cylindrophyllum
"Cylindrohelium profundum" = Cylindrophyllum horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Cladopora bifurcata Grabau 1909 tabulate coral