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Description
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The Warrior Formation is described by Berg and others as gray, thin- to medium-bedded, fossiliferous, cyclic limestone bearing stromatolites , interbedded with shale, siltstone, and sandstone.[5]
Fossils
[ edit ] Cryptozoon undulatum from Bakers Summit
Trilobites ,[1] Crepicephalus Cedaria Llanoaspidella [3] Blountia kindlei Coosella brevis Kingstonia ara K. kindlei Resser, and other Kingstonia species, Menomonia avitas Blountia , Modocia , Lonchocephalus , Genevievella , Pemphigaspis .[6]
Brachiopods [3]
Cryptozoon , a type of trace fossil[1] [6]
Stromatolites [5]
Notable Exposures
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Age
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Relative age dating places the Warrior Formation in the middle to late Cambrian .
References
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^ a b c d e Butts, Charles, 1918, Geologic section of Blair and Huntingdon Counties, central Pennsylvania: American Journal of Science , 4th series, v. 46, p. 523-537.
^ Wilson, J.L., 1952, Upper Cambrian stratigraphy in the central Appalachians: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 63, no. 3, p. 275-322.
^ a b c d Tasch, Paul, 1951, Fauna and Paleoecology of the Upper Cambrian Warrior Formation of Central Pennsylvania, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 275-306, pls. 44-47, May 1951 abstract
^ USGS Mineral Resources On-Line Spatial Data , retrieved 4 Mar. 2011
^ a b Berg, T.M. (compiler), 1980, Geologic map of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Geological Survey State Map, 4th series, 1, 1 sheet, scale 1:250,000 [1 ]
^ a b Charles Butts, 1945. Hollidaysburg-Huntingdon folio , Pennsylvania, Folios of the Geologic Atlas 227. United States Geological Survey.
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