Bed #2 of the Kinzer Fm., Humble Oil/Refining Co., Lancaster, PA - Campbell 1971 (Cambrian of the United States)

Where: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (40.1° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° S, 88.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Kinzers Formation), Delamaran (511.2 - 506.5 Ma)

• Fauna occur 85 feet above the uppermost unit to which a Cambrian age can be assigned and 30 feet below the Kinzers and Ledger Formations contact. Bed #2 is 0.4 feet thick.

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•Was St Davids.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty limestone

• very silty limestone; locally weathered to porous siltstone.

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: First definite occurance of Ogygopsis from the Appalachians.

Primary reference: L. D. Campbell. 1971. Occurrence of "Ogygopis Shale" fauna in southeastern Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 45:437-440 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7865: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 04.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

• List includes sponge spicules (very common) and inarticulate brachiopods (rare), but further identification is not given.
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Oryctocephalidae
Oryctocephalus sp.
Oryctocephalus sp. Walcott 1886 trilobite
very rare
 Corynexochida - Dorypygidae
Olenoides serratus
Olenoides serratus Rominger 1887 trilobite
very rare
 Corynexochida - Dolichometopidae
Bathyuriscus sp.
Bathyuriscus sp. Meek 1873 trilobite
very rare
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
"Elrathina sp." = Ptychoparella
"Elrathina sp." = Ptychoparella Poulson 1927 trilobite
common
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis sp.
Peronopsis sp. Corda 1847
very common
Inarticulata
  -
Inarticulata indet.
 Hyolithelminthida -
Byronia sp.
Byronia sp.
very rare
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
very common