USNM loc. 22L, Kinzers Fm, PA - Garci-Bellido Capdevila and Conway Morris 1999: Dyeran, Pennsylvania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
unclassified
Serracaris sp.
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758
Helcionelloida - Helcionellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella exigua Resser and Howell 1938
Thomas et al. 2020
unclassified
Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Atalotaenia adela n. gen., n. sp. Garcia-Bellido Capdevila and Conway Morris 1999
1 specimen
Kinzeriidae
Kinzeria crinita n. gen., n. sp. Garcia-Bellido Capdevila and Conway Morris 1999
1 specimen
Bryopsidophyceae - Caulerpales - Caulerpaceae
Margaretia sp. Walcott 1931
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Pennsylvania County:Lancaster
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 76.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° South, 91.4° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2-3
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian *Epoch:Caerfai
Key time interval: Dyeran
Age range of interval: 514.8 - 511 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kinzers Member:Emigsville
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Was Tommotian - Atdabanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified "shale"
Lithology description: blue-gray shale composed mainly of illite, chlorite, and detrital septechlorite with relatively large illite crystals.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Metadata
Database number:9314
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky, P. Novack-Gottshall Enterer:P. Borkow, P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-10-18 07:25:09 Last modified:2010-05-21 22:20:30
Access level:the public Released:2000-10-18 07:25:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
801. 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]

Secondary references:

78996 R. D. K. Thomas, B. Runnegar, and K. Matt. 2020. Pelagiella exigua, an early Cambrian stem gastropod with chaetae: lophotrochozoan heritage and conchiferan novelty. Palaeontology 63(4):601-627 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]