Holy Cross Mountains, Klonowka Shale (Cambrian to of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.9° N, 21.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.7° S, 98.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Klonowka Shale Formation, Furongian to Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• middle and upper Upper Cambrian - Lower Tremadoc

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified siltstone

• shales and siltstones with sandstone intercalations, about 400 m thick, fauna occurs in nest-like concentrations

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 72274: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Beltella cf. irae" = Leptoplastides irae Orlowski 1968 trilobite
"Beltella irae" = Leptoplastides irae Orlowski 1968 trilobite
"Beltella rotundata" = Leptoplastides ulrichi Kayser 1897 trilobite
Parabolina bella trilobite
"Parabolina lobata" = Parabolina (Neoparabolina) lobata Brøgger 1882 trilobite
"Parabolina acanthura" = Parabolina (Parabolina) acanthura Angelin 1854 trilobite
Peltura scarabeoides trilobite
subsp. scarabeoides and westergaardi
Sphaerophthalmus alatus Boeck 1838 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Rugaeconidae
"Latouchella aperta" = Dorispira aperta
"Latouchella aperta" = Dorispira aperta Orlowski 1968
Pterobranchia
 Dendroidea - Acanthograptidae
Dictyonema sp. Hall 1851 graptolite