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.

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

High quality fossil specimens (Lagerstätte) were obtained from the Noah Getz Quarry, one mile north of Rohrerstown, Pennsylvania, but the quarry location is overgrown and disturbed by development.

The fossils are from the Emigsville Member, and include the trilobite Olenellus thompsoni, the radiodont Lenisicaris pennsylvanica, the bivalve Tuzoia getzi, and the green algae Margaretia dorus.