Holy Cross Mts. (Gory Swietokrzyskie) between Wisniowka and Backowice (Cambrian of Poland)

Also known as Holy Cross Mountains, Wisniowka Sandstone

Where: Poland (50.9° N, 20.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° S, 104.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Olenus scanicus trilobite zone, Wisniowka Sandstone Formation, Paibian (497.0 - 494.0 Ma)

• lower Upper Cambrian, Olenus Zone. PJW: Olenus zone in this region = Olenus scanicus zone. Changed from Furongian to Paibian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

• thick-bedded very hard light-gray to blue sandstones and quartzites, intercalated with siltstones and siltstone and clay shales, about 400 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 72273: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
Olenus rarus, Protopeltura olenusorum, Protopeltura sp.
Olenus rarus trilobite
Protopeltura sp. Broegger 1882 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Finkelnburgiidae
Orusia cf. lenticularis
Orusia cf. lenticularis Wahlenberg 1821
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Obolus sp.
Obolus sp. Eichwald 1829
Eocrinoidea
 Ascocystitida -
Cambrocrinus regularis
Cambrocrinus regularis Orlowski 1968