Roadside, Waynesboro area (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Pennsylvania (39.8° N, 77.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° S, 97.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tomstown Dolomite Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Limestone

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139907: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Salterella
  - Salterellidae