Where: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (40.1° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 89.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby. 1987. Early Cambrian sponges from Vermont and Pennsylvania, the only ones described from North America. Journal of Paleontology 61(3):451-461 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121236: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.12.2011

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