Where: Centre County, Pennsylvania (41.0° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.7° S, 25.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shriver Member (Old Point Formation), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Milici, R.C., and C.S. Swezey, 2006. Assessment of the Appalachian Basin Oil and Gas Resources: Devonian Shale – Middle and Upper Paleozoic Total Petroleum System. United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1237. pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1237/index.hotmail.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: All specimens documented in this report are housed at the State Museum of Pennsylvania (SMP), Harrisburg.

Primary reference: J. M. Malinky. 2009. First occurrence of Orthotheca Novák, 1886 (Hyolitha, Early Devonian) in North America. Journal of Paleontology 83(4):588-596 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90617: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 11.08.2009

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