24b, Waddle area (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Centre County, Pennsylvania (40.8° N, 77.9° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.6° N, 103.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Warrior Formation, Merioneth (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• group of beds-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 77696: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Kingstonia ara Walcott 1924 trilobite
Kingstonia apion Walcott 1924 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Catillicephalidae
Welleraspis cf. newfoundlandensis Lochman 1938 trilobite
"Hallaspis matutina" = Pemphigaspis trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Marjumiidae
Coosella vulgaris n. sp. trilobite
Coosella "sp. 1" Lochman 1936 trilobite
Coosella "sp. 2" Lochman 1936 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
Lonchocephalus waddlei n. sp. trilobite
  - Llanoaspididae
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848