Holy Cross Mountains, Slowiec Sandstone (Cambrian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 21.4° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° S, 106.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Slowiec Sandstone Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• lower and middle Middle Cambrian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• poorly sorted, often coarse-grained, brittle, thick-bedded sandstones with light-gray, light-yellow or reddish colour, about 100 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

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 72271: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
 Ptychopariida - Solenopleuridae
"Solenopleurina linnarssoni" = Herse, Jincella munsteri
"Solenopleurina linnarssoni" = Herse trilobite
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae