EQ- 5 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (41.8° N, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 78.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Elvinia trilobite zone, Ore Hill Limestone Member (Gatesburg Formation), Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 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 Eschelman Quarry section of the Ore Hill member of the Gatesburg formation Collection EQ-5 21ft 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 156669: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 28.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
  - Nepeidae
Xenocheilos spineum
Xenocheilos spineum Wilson 1951 trilobite
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Deckera completa, Burnetiella urania, Kindbladia wichitaensis, "Deadwoodia duris" = Wuhuia
Kindbladia wichitaensis Resser 1942 trilobite
"Deadwoodia duris" = Wuhuia trilobite
 Olenida - Pterocephaliidae
Housia vacuna
Housia vacuna Walcott 1890 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Bynumina terrenda