Unit 15, 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: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray sandstone

• sandstone, fine to medium grained, medium gray to light olive gray, commonly in 2-3 ft. beds that may be cross beds

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

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 9662: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 10.01.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Relative abundance information: present (one specimen collected), common (2-10 specimens collected), abundant (more than 10 specimens collected), very abundant (sample extremely rich in a given species)
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten bellus scallop
present
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina hamiltonensis Hall 1857
present
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella vanuxemi Hall 1857
present
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
common
 Spiriferida - Spinocyrtiidae
Mediospirifer audaculus Conrad 1842
common
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Greenops ? boothi Green 1837 trilobite
present