Quarry at the junction of Lincoln Highway & Biesecker Road, Thomasville is a fossil collection site in York, Pennsylvania, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Kinzers Formation, dated to the Dyeran (515.3–509.7 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as carbonate indet. Documented finds include Eothele tubulus, Hadrotreta, Eoobolus priscus, Micromitra, Pelagiella, Yochelcionella americana.

Geologic setting

Formation: Kinzers
Geologic interval: Dyeran
Age: 515.3–509.7 Ma
Depositional environment: carbonate indet.
Recorded occurrences: 17

Locality notes

Samples were collected by J. S. Peel from the so-called water pipe section, exposed in the west wall of the roadway between the two quarries, about 50 m south of the down-faulted phyllite of the Emigsville Member. Long operated by Thomasville Stone and Lime Company, it is now owned by Oldcastle Industrial Minerals.

Fossils found here

Eothele tubulus

Lingulata · Acrothelidae

Hadrotreta

Lingulata · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Eoobolus priscus

Lingulata · Eoobolidae

Micromitra

Paterinata · Paterinidae

Pelagiella

Helcionelloida · Pelagiellidae

Yochelcionella americana

Helcionelloida · Yochelcionellidae

Yochelcionella chinensis

Helcionelloida · Yochelcionellidae

Yochelcionella greenlandica

Helcionelloida · Yochelcionellidae

Planutenia flectata

Helcionelloida · Stenothecidae

Conotheca australiensis

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Circothecidae

Chancelloria

Coeloscleritophora · Chancelloriidae

Hyolithellus micans

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Hyolithellidae

Salterella

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Dodecaactinella

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Polyactinellidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 97879 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Questions about Quarry at the junction of Lincoln Highway & Biesecker Road, Thomasville

Can you collect at Quarry at the junction of Lincoln Highway & Biesecker Road, Thomasville?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at Quarry at the junction of Lincoln Highway & Biesecker Road, Thomasville?

Fossil.

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Meteorite nearbyA 384 kg iron meteorite was found at Mount Joy in 1887, 22 miles from here.

Source: Paleobiology Database.