Bellefonte Section 511.5’-516.8’ above base (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Axeman County, Pennsylvania (40.7° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° S, 72.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Forge Union Member (Nittany Dolomite Formation), Demingian (485.4 - 478.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A.R. Spelman. 1966. Stratigraphy of Lower Ordovician Nittany Dolomite in central Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Geological Survey General Geology Report G 47:1-187 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56465: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 18.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
"Lecanospira cf. salteri" = Lecanospira compacta
"Lecanospira cf. salteri" = Lecanospira compacta Salter 1859 snail