Holy Cross Mountains, Usarzow Sandstone (Cambrian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 21.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 106.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Paradoxides oelandicus trilobite zone, Usarzow Sandstone Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• lower Middle Cambrian, Oelandicus stage

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified shale

• fine- and medium-grained quartz sandstones with subordinate clay and siltstone shale intercalations, up to 400 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: S. Orlowski. 1975. Jednostki litostratygraficzne kambru i gornego prekambru Gor Swietokrzyskich [Cambrian and Upper Precambrian lithostratigraphic units in the Holy Cross Mountains]. Acta Geologica Polonica 25(3):431-448 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 72269: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Protolenus (Protolenus) polonicus, Strenuella (Comluella) samsonowiczi, Strenuella (Comluella) hupei, Kingaspis (Kingaspis) henningsmoeni, Ellipsocephalus polytomus, Ellipsocephalus guerichi, Ellipsocephalus puschi, Ellipsocephalus jugoszovi
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Paradoxides insularis, Paradoxides oelandicus, Paradoxides pinus
Paradoxides oelandicus Sjögren 1872 trilobite
Paradoxides pinus Westergard 1936 trilobite