USNM locality 8x, 2 miles north of york (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (40.0° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 77.7° S, 96.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Bonnia - Olenellus trilobite zone, Kinzers Formation, Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)

• Kinzers Formation

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous shale

• "outer shelf? ocean facing shelf, BA5"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: C. E. Resser and B. F. Howell. 1938. Lower Cambrian Olenellus zone of the Appalachians. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 49:195-248 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226193: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 23.06.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Lepidocystoidea
  - Lepidocystidae
Lepidocystis wanneri n. gen. n. sp.
Lepidocystis wanneri n. gen. n. sp. Foerste 1938
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Bonniella yorkensis n. sp.
Bonniella yorkensis n. sp. Resser and Howell 1938 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Holmiidae
Esmeraldina macer
Esmeraldina macer Resser and Howell 1938 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Olenellidae
Olenellus wanneri n. sp., "Paedeumias yorkense n. sp." = Olenellus roddyi, "Olenellus similaris n. sp." = Olenellus roddyi, "Paedeumias eboracense n. sp." = Olenellus roddyi, "Paedeumias glabrum" = Olenellus roddyi, Olenellus alius n. sp.
Olenellus wanneri n. sp. Resser and Howell 1938 trilobite
"Paedeumias yorkense n. sp." = Olenellus roddyi Resser and Howell 1938 trilobite
"Olenellus similaris n. sp." = Olenellus roddyi Resser and Howell 1938 trilobite
"Paedeumias eboracense n. sp." = Olenellus roddyi Resser and Howell 1938 trilobite
"Paedeumias glabrum" = Olenellus roddyi Resser and Howell 1938 trilobite
Olenellus alius n. sp. Resser and Howell 1938 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Wanneriidae
Wanneria walcottana
Wanneria walcottana Wanner 1901 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
"Eoagnostus roddyi" = Peronopsis roddyi
"Eoagnostus roddyi" = Peronopsis roddyi Resser and Howell 1938
 Radiodonta - Anomalocarididae
Anomalocaris lineata
Anomalocaris lineata Resser and Howell 1938
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes wanneri
Hyolithes wanneri Resser and Howell 1938
Salterella
  - Salterellidae
Salterella acervulosa n. sp.
Salterella acervulosa n. sp. Resser and Howell 1938