Where: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (40.5° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 6.9° S, 16.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Brush Creek Shale Member (Glenshaw Formation), Missourian (306.0 - 303.7 Ma)
• JA: originally entered as Pennsylvanian, but the Brush Creek Shale is generally recognized as Missourian
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CM
Primary reference: P. E. Raymond. 1911. A preliminary list of the fauna of the Allegheny and Conemaugh series in western Pennsylvania. Report Pennsylvannia Topographical and Geological Survey Committee 7:83-98 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184106: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Griffithides scitulus" = Ditomopyge scitulus
"Griffithides scitulus" = Ditomopyge scitulus Meek and Worthen 1865 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
Worthenia tabulata Conrad 1835 snail | |
Trepospira illinoisensis Worthen 1884 snail | |
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria
"Pleurotomaria carbonaria" = Shansiella carbonaria Norwood and Pratten 1855 snail | |
"Bulimorpha nitidula" = Soleniscus typicus
"Bulimorpha nitidula" = Soleniscus typicus Meek and Worthen 1860 snail | |
"Platyceras parvum" = Orthonychia parva
"Platyceras parvum" = Orthonychia parva Shumard and Swallow 1858 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Allorisma subcuneatum" = Wilkingia terminale
"Allorisma subcuneatum" = Wilkingia terminale Hall 1852 clam | |
Astartella vera Hall 1858 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Composita subtilita Hall 1852 | |
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus
"Spirifer cameratus" = Neospirifer cameratus Morton 1836 | |
"Ambocoelia planoconvexa" = Crurithyris planoconvexa
"Ambocoelia planoconvexa" = Crurithyris planoconvexa Shumard 1855 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis
"Marginifera wabashensis" = Hystriculina wabashensis Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |
"Productus nebraskensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis
"Productus nebraskensis" = Parajuresania nebrascensis Owen 1852 | |
"Derbya crassa" = Derbyia crassa
"Derbya crassa" = Derbyia crassa Meek and Hayden 1858 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Lophophyllum profundum" = Lophophyllidium profundum
"Lophophyllum profundum" = Lophophyllidium profundum Milne-Edward and Haime 1851 horn coral |