Imler Quarry, IQ-25.5, Gatesburg Formation, Ore Hill Member, Bedford County (Cambrian of the United States)

Also known as Reef 2744

Where: Pennsylvania (40.0° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 80.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ore Hill Member (Gatesburg Formation), Dolgellian (492.5 - 485.4 Ma)

• uppermost Steptoean, Elvinia zone, Cliffia lataegenae subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• microbial reef boundstones and associated grainstones

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 62094: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Phylacteridae
Drabia acroccipita Wilson 1951 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Bynumina "n. sp." Resser 1942 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
 Asaphida - Ptychaspididae
 Olenida - Dokimokephalidae
Dellea rogersi trilobite
Pseudosaratogia spp. Wilson 1951 trilobite