Where: Centre County, Pennsylvania (40.8° N, 77.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 9.5° N, 103.1° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Warrior Formation, Merioneth (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)
• The Warrior Formation underlays the Gatesburg Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. Tasch. 1951. Fauna and paleoecology of the Upper Cambrian Warrior Formation of central Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 25(3):275-306 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77672: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.01.2008
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Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Kingstonia apion Walcott 1924 trilobite
Ankoura cf. orbiculata trilobite | |
Coosella "sp. 2" Lochman 1936 trilobite | |
Genevievella campbellina trilobite | |
Lingulata | |
"Lingulepis acuminata" = Lingulella (Lingulepis) acuminata
"Lingulepis acuminata" = Lingulella (Lingulepis) acuminata Conrad 1839 |