Where: Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (40.8° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° S, 23.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hazard Member (Selinsgrove Formation), Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• Painted ore beds are from the Hazard member of the Selinsgrove Formation (Willard 1957: Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 41(10):2298-2311). This is basal and thus probably equivalent to the Edgecliff.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, argillaceous limestone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Willard and L. Whitcomb. 1938. Onondaga Paint-Ore Fauna from Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 12(5):511-513 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 232686: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 20.12.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Cyathophyllum cf. coronatum horn coral | |
Favosites limitaris Rominger 1876 tabulate coral | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea "columnals" Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Gastropoda | |
"Diaphorostoma lineatum" = Platyostoma lineata
"Diaphorostoma lineatum" = Platyostoma lineata Conrad 1842 snail | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula ligea Hall 1867 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
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Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
"Anoplotheca acutiplicata" = Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata
"Anoplotheca acutiplicata" = Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata Conrad 1841 | |
Schizophoria striatula von Schlotheim 1813 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus
"Chonetes lepidus" = Klocinetes lepidus Hall 1857 | |
"Chonetes arcuatus" = Eodevonaria arcuata
"Chonetes arcuatus" = Eodevonaria arcuata Hall 1857 | |
"Leptostrophia perplana" = Protoleptostrophia perplana
"Leptostrophia perplana" = Protoleptostrophia perplana Conrad 1839 | |
Leptaena cf. rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Stropheodonta inequistriata" = Strophomena (Strophodonta), "Stropheodonta patersoni" = Strophomena (Strophodonta), "Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa, Stropheodonta ? concava
"Stropheodonta inequistriata" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta patersoni" = Strophomena (Strophodonta)
"Stropheodonta demissa" = Strophodonta (Strophodonta) demissa Conrad 1842
Stropheodonta ? concava Hall 1857 | |
Craniata | |
"Pholidops sp." = Craniops
"Pholidops sp." = Craniops Hall 1859 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Ostracoda | |
Ulrichia sp. Jones 1890 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
"Acidaspis callicera" = Kettneraspis callicera
"Acidaspis callicera" = Kettneraspis callicera Hall and Clarke 1888 trilobite | |
Odontocephalus aegeria trilobite | |
"Phacops pipa" = Viaphacops pipa Hall and Clarke 1888 trilobite Phacops cristata var. pipa Hall and Clarke Phacops rana
"Phacops cristata" = Viaphacops cristatus Hall 1861 trilobite
Phacops sp. Emmrich 1839 trilobite | |
"Phaetonides gemmaeus" = Prionopeltis
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"Cyphaspis minuscula" = Maurotarion minuscula
"Cyphaspis minuscula" = Maurotarion minuscula Hall 1876 trilobite | |
"Conolichas eriopis" = Echinolichas eriopis
"Conolichas eriopis" = Echinolichas eriopis Hall 1863 trilobite |