Where: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (40.1° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.8° S, 91.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Emigsville Member (Kinzers Formation), Dyeran (515.3 - 511.2 Ma)
• Was Tommotian - Atdabanian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray shale
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, chemical,
Primary reference: D. Garcia-Bellido Capdevila and S. Conway Morris. 1999. New fossil worms from the Lower Cambrian of the Kinzers Formation, Pennsylvania, with some comments on Burgess Shale-type preservation. Journal of Paleontology 73(3):394-402 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9314: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 18.10.2000, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hyolitha | |
Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Helcionelloida | |
Pelagiella exigua Resser and Howell 1938 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Serracaris | |
Kinzeria crinita | |
Kinzeria crinita n. gen. n. sp.
Kinzeria crinita n. gen. n. sp. Garcia-Bellido Capdevila and Conway Morris 1999 | |
Atalotaenia adela | |
Atalotaenia adela n. gen. n. sp.
Atalotaenia adela n. gen. n. sp. Garcia-Bellido Capdevila and Conway Morris 1999 | |
Bryopsidophyceae | |
Margaretia sp. Walcott 1931 |