Highway No. 322 near Waddle, Bed 13.3 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Centre County, Pennsylvania (40.8° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 79.1° W)

• 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

• coarse-grained 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 77689: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Crepicephalidae
? Coosia pustulata n. sp. trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Marjumiidae
Coosella "sp. 2" Lochman 1936 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Tricrepicephalidae
Tricrepicephalus arcuatus n. sp. trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae