Leptodesma-Tylothyris community, Foreknobs Fm. (Devonian to of the United States)

Where: West Virginia (37.8° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° S, 29.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Foreknobs Formation, Frasnian to Frasnian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

• "Upper Dev (upper Fras-lower Famennian)"

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; siltstone

• "sltst. lagoonal (nearshore side of Pound SS bar environment) unstable, variable salinity (~= delta platform). BA2"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. R. McGhee. 1976. Late Devonian benthic marine communities of the central Appalachian Allegheny Front. Lethaia 9:111-136 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 634: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "McGhee, 1976"
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia sp.
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp.
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris sp.
Tylothyris sp. North 1920
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria sp.
Schizophoria sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Productella sp.
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp.
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
Douvillina sp.
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Strophodonta sp." = Strophomena (Strophodonta) Hall 1852
originally entered as "Stropheodonta sp."
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp.
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leptodesma sp.
Leptodesma sp. Hall 1883 oyster
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
Edmondia sp.
Edmondia sp. de Koninck 1841 clam
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Sphenotus sp.
Sphenotus sp. Hall 1884 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Spathella sp.
Spathella sp. Hall 1885 clam
Gastropoda
 Streptoneura -
? Archaeogastropoda indet.
? Archaeogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail
archaeogastropods - originally entered as "? Archaeogastropoda indet."