24d, Waddle area (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Centre County, Pennsylvania (40.8° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° S, 79.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Warrior Formation, Merioneth (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Tasch. 1951. Fauna and paleoecology of the Upper Cambrian Warrior Formation of central Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 25(3):275-306 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77697: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
"Lingulepis acuminata" = Lingulella (Lingulepis) acuminata Conrad 1839
Trilobita
  - Llanoaspididae
 Ptychopariida - Lonchocephalidae
 Ptychopariida - Kingstoniidae
Blountia warriorensis n. sp. trilobite
Kingstonia apion Walcott 1924 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Menomoniidae
 Ptychopariida - Norwoodiidae
Holcacephalus tunda trilobite
subsp. atypicala
 Ptychopariida - Marjumiidae