Windom Shale Locality 3 (Devonian of the United States)

Also known as Cazenovia Creek

Where: Erie County, New York (42.9° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° S, 26.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Windom Member (Moscow Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• "from upper 5 feet of dark gray Windom shale"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, gray, calcareous shale

• "the Windom member consists of fine-grained, medium to dark gray shales interrupted by numerous thin [highly fossiliferous] coquinoid limestone bands and lenses" with concretions in "the upper 2 feet"

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Reposited in the NYSM

• New York State Museum collection

•collection and preparation methods unclear

Primary reference: L. E. Stover. 1956. Ostracoda from the Windom Shale (Hamilton) of Western New York. Journal of Paleontology 30(5):1092-1142 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94043: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Kloedenellidae
 Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinella sella n. sp. ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Ponderodictya punctulifera Kesling and Chilman 1978 ostracod
 Podocopida - Quasillitidae
Jenningsina catenulata Kesling and Chilman 1978 ostracod