ammonites
Silica Shale Unit B - South (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Indiana (41.1° N, 84.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° S, 32.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Silica Shale Member (Traverse Formation), Givetian (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified mudstone and lithified packstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: L. A. Wiedman. 1985. Community paleoecological study of the Silica Shale equivalent of northeastern Indiana. Journal of Paleontology 59(1):160-182 [S. Peters/S. Peters/S. Peters] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66003: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 26.09.2006