Unit 1, Montebello Member, Mahantango Fm., Rockville, Perry Co., PA (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Perry County, Pennsylvania (40.3° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° S, 25.3° W)

When: Montebello Member (Mahantango Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; gray sandstone and siltstone

• sandstone, fine grained and siltstone, light olive gray (5Y5/2), weathering dark yellowish brown (10YR4/2), in 3-12 inch crossbeds

Primary reference: R. L. Ellison. 1965. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Mahantango Formation in south-central Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Geological Survey Bulletin G48 1-298 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9657: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.01.2001, edited by Alycia Stigall

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Trimerus (Dipleura) dekayi Green 1832 trilobite
present
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophontidae indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
abundant
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris ? spiriferoides Eaton 1831
present
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842
abundant
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
present
  - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839
abundant
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Camarotoechia congregata" = Cupularostrum congregata
"Camarotoechia congregata" = Cupularostrum congregata Conrad 1841
common
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia prolifica Hall 1867
common
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae