Drab-Beavertown, DB-5, Gatesburg Formation, Ore Hill Member, Blair County (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Reef 3425

Where: Pennsylvania (40.4° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 30.9° S, 79.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudosaratogia magna trilobite zone, Ore Hill Member (Gatesburg Formation), Steptoean (497.0 - 493.5 Ma)

• Late Steptoean; Elvinia zone, Pseudosaratogia magna subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified grainstone and lithified dolomite

• intraclastic grainstone and quartz sandy dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. D. Loch and J. F. Taylor. 2004. New trilobite taxa from Upper Cambrian microbial reefs in the central Appalachians. Journal of Paleontology 78(3):591-602 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62076: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Pseudosaratogia spp. Wilson 1951 trilobite