Kinzers trip

[Dean Ruocco]

I took my good friend @cameronsfossilcollection out the other week to my kinzers spot. Here’s some of are finds. 

[jpc]

cool.  Is Kinzer a place or a formation?  Or...?

 

[Misha]

22 minutes ago, jpc said:

cool.  Is Kinzer a place or a formation?  Or...?

 

Cambrian formation in Pennsylvania

[Dean Ruocco]

23 minutes ago, jpc said:

cool.  Is Kinzer a place or a formation?  Or...?

 

Its a formation. 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Don't get to see much from this formation.

Nice finds, very interesting. 

[minnbuckeye]

Excellent finds! I had the opportunity to play in the Kinzer  once and came up skunked. So I for one appreciate what you have discovered!

 

 Mike

[hemipristis]

Rare indeed!  good for you

[jpc]

12 hours ago, Dean Ruocco said:

Its a formation. 

Thanks.  

[Pagurus]

[erose]

14 hours ago, Misha said:

Cambrian formation in Pennsylvania

I have a few bits from a NYPS trip decades ago. Exposures are few and we were lucky enough to get onto some private farm land. Literally a plowed field that had chunks scattered about and we could get in before it was planted.

 

Some cool bugs come from the Kinzer.

[Plax]

Not as deformed the ones you see at Harrisburg Ave near Lancaster. Very nice.

[Jeffrey P]

Excellent finds. Kinzer material is hard to come by, but every few years somebody posts some on the Forum. Thanks for sharing yours. Did you find the counterpart to the first trilobite? 

[Dean Ruocco]

1 hour ago, Jeffrey P said:

Excellent finds. Kinzer material is hard to come by, but every few years somebody posts some on the Forum. Thanks for sharing yours. Did you find the counterpart to the first trilobite? 

Sadly no, we found a few others that were that complete though. I just had a picture of that one. 

[Oxytropidoceras]

On 4/23/2022 at 11:29 PM, Misha said:

Cambrian formation in Pennsylvania

 

Geologic Unit: Kinzers Formation, Publications - USGS

Skinner, E.S., 2004. Taphonomy of exceptionally preserved fossils from the

Kinzers Formation (Cambrian), southeastern Pennsylvania. The Ohio State University.

 

PDF File at Ohio State University       PDF file at Site Seer

 

Powell, W., 2009. Comparison of geochemical and distinctive mineralogical

features associated with the Kinzers and Burgess Shale formations and their

associated units. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 277

(1-2), pp.127-140.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[cameronsfossilcollection]

This was a dream come true! Thanks for making it happen, dean. 

 

Here are some of the bugs I collected on our trip…