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Vintage Dolomite

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Vintage Dolomite
Stratigraphic range: Cambrian
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
Primary	dolomite
Location
Region	Pennsylvania
Country	United States
Type section
Named by	Stose and Jonas (1922)^[1]

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

Type section

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

Photo of the type section in 2019. The Kinzers Formation overlying the dolomite is about a meter thick in this photo.
Vintage Dolomite in quarry at Kinzers. Shows well-bedded character of lower part of Vintage dolomite.

Fossils

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

References

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^ ^a ^b 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 [1]

^ Ellis L. Yochelson, 1970. The Early Cambrian Fossil Salterella conulata Clark in Eastern North America. Contributions to Paleontology, Geological Survey Professional Paper 683-B.

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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