unit 13, Montebello Member, Mahantango Fm., Dromgold, PA (Devonian of the United States)

Where: Pennsylvania (40.3° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° S, 25.5° W)

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, argillaceous sandstone

• sandstone, argillaceous, fine-grained, greenish-gray, crossbedded in 8 to 18 inch 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 9706: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.01.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Relative abundance info: present (1 specimen collected), common (2-10 specimens collected), abundant (more than 10 specimens collected), very abundant (sample extremely rich in a given species)
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
common
  - Tropidoleptidae
Tropidoleptus carinatus Conrad 1839
present
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Devonochonetes coronatus Hall 1857
abundant