Where: York County, Pennsylvania (40.0° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 97.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Vintage Dolomite Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)
• The dark-gray limestone is distinctive from the typical mottled lithology of the Vintage and begins above a 5-foot band of cream-colored limestone, it is
•convenient to use the formational name Vintage for all carbonate rocks below the Kinzers Formation (fig. 2). The dark-gray limestone is probably involved in a regional change in facies, but a separate designation for these upper beds is not appropriate.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified dolomite
•limestone near the top of the section
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: E. L. Yochelson. 1970. The Early Cambrian Fossil Salterella conulata Clark in Eastern North America. Contributions to Paleontology [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 139904: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Salterella | |
Salterella conulata Clark 1924 |