Vintage Dolomite

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Vintage Dolomite
Stratigraphic range: Cambrian
Bulletin 799 Plate 3A Vintage Dolomite overlain by Kinzers Shale.jpg
Upper part of the Vintage Dolomite overlain by Kinzers Shale exposed in cut on the Pennsylvania Railroad near Vintage. This is the type section.
Type Formation
Underlies Kinzers Formation
Lithology
Primarydolomite
Location
RegionFlag of Pennsylvania.svg  Pennsylvania
CountryFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Type section
Named byStose and Jonas (1922) [1]

The Vintage Dolomite is a geologic formation in Pennsylvania. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian period.

Contents

Type section

Named from exposures at a railroad cut at Vintage, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [1]


Fossils

Salterella conulata species have been found in the upper Vintage Dolomite. [2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Stose, G.W., and Jonas, A.I., 1922. The lower Paleozoic section in southeastern Pennsylvania, Washington Academy of Sciences, Journal v. 12, no. 5, p. 358-366
  2. Ellis L. Yochelson, 1970. The Early Cambrian Fossil Salterella conulata Clark in Eastern North America. Contributions to Paleontology, Geological Survey Professional Paper 683-B.