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Conodonts from the Upper Olentangy Shale (Upper Devonian, central Ohio) and stratigraphy across the Frasnian-Famennian Boundary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

D. Jeffrey Over  and
Meredith K. Rhodes
D. Jeffrey Over
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York, 14454,
Meredith K. Rhodes
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706,
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Abstract

The Upper Olentangy Shale of Ohio, a green pyritic shale interbedded with thin dark gray shale beds, disconformably overlies the lithologically similar Middle Devonian Lower Olentangy Shale. The muds were deposited in a quiet offshore environment on the distal margin of the Appalachian Basin during the Late Frasnian through Early Famennian. The Upper Olentangy Shale contains abundant and diverse conodonts of MN Zone 13 and the Middle triangularis Zone. The Frasnian-Famennian boundary is 4-8 cm below the base of the Huron Shale at the Olentangy Shale type section in Delaware, Ohio. The boundary interval is a green shale containing a mixed highest Frasnian (e.g., Palmatolepis bogartensis, P. linguiformis) and lowest Famennian (e.g., P. delicatula, P. subperlobata, P. triangularis) conodont fauna. An ash horizon, pyritic bed, finely laminated dark shale, and a thin green-blue shale comprise the upper 3 cm of the Olentangy, and contain a conodont fauna indicative of the Middle triangularis Zone.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 101 - 112
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 2000

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