Kinzers Formation

Kinzers Formation Stratigraphic range: Cambrian
Reticulately weathered argillaceous-banded limestone of upper member of Kinzers Formation. USGS photo.
Type	Formation
Sub-units	Emigsville Mb., York Mb., Greenmount Mb.
Underlies	Ledger Formation
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Other	Shale, marble
Location
Region	Mid-Atlantic United States
Country	United States
Extent	Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia
Type section
Named for	Kinzers, Pennsylvania
Named by	Stose, G.W., and Jonas, A.I.

The Kinzers Formation is a geologic formation in Pennsylvania. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cambrian Period.

The base of the Kinzers Formation is primarily a dark-brown shale. The middle is a gray and white spotted limestone and, locally, marble having irregular partings. The top is a sandy limestone which weathers to a fine-grained, friable, porous, sandy mass.

Named from exposures at a railroad cut at Kinzers, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

High quality fossil specimens (Lagerstätte) were obtained from the Getz Quarry, near Rohrerstown, Pennsylvania, but the location no longer exists. The fossils are from the Emigsville Member, and include the trilobite Olenellus thompsoni, the arthropod Anomalocaris pennsylvanica, the bivalve Tuzoia getzi, and the green algae Margaretia dorus.