PC- 115 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (41.4° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° S, 88.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Taenicephalus trilobite zone, Ore Hill Limestone Member (Gatesburg Formation), Cambrian (538.8 - 485.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Loch and Taylor do not describe lithology, however Wilson 1951 described this unit as massive dark crystalline dolomite, most of the Ore Hill limestone is typically thin-bedded and weathers into yellow mottled blue-gray flagstones 1-4 inches thick, finely crystalline or aphanetic and when fresh, quite black.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Trilobites collected from Potter Creek section of the Ore Hill member of the Gatesburg formation Collection PC-115 115ft from the base of the formation

Primary reference: J. D. Loch and J. F. Taylor. 1995. High-Resolution Biostratigraphy in the Upper Cambrian ore hill Member of Gatesburg Formation, South-Central Pennsylvnia. Graphic Correlation, SEPM Special Publication (53) [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156652: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 28.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Parabolinella occidentalis