USNM loc. 22L, Kinzers Fm, PA - Garci-Bellido Capdevila and Conway Morris 1999 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (40.1° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 91.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emigsville Member (Kinzers Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• Was Tommotian - Atdabanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray shale

• blue-gray shale composed mainly of illite, chlorite, and detrital septechlorite with relatively large illite crystals.

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

Primary reference: D. Garcia-Bellido Capdevila and S. Conway Morris. 1999. New fossil worms from the Lower Cambrian of the Kinzers Formation, Pennsylvania, with some comments on Burgess Shale-type preservation. Journal of Paleontology 73(3):394-402 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9314: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.10.2000, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Serracaris
  -
unclassified
  -
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella exigua Resser and Howell 1938
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Hyolitha
  -
Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963
Atalotaenia adela
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Atalotaenia adela n. gen. n. sp.
Atalotaenia adela n. gen. n. sp. Garcia-Bellido Capdevila and Conway Morris 1999
Kinzeria crinita
  - Kinzeriidae
Kinzeria crinita n. gen. n. sp.
Kinzeria crinita n. gen. n. sp. Garcia-Bellido Capdevila and Conway Morris 1999
Bryopsidophyceae
 Caulerpales - Caulerpaceae
Margaretia sp. Walcott 1931