Holy Cross Mountains, Chabowe Doly Sandstone Bed (Cambrian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.9° N, 21.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° S, 100.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Peltura trilobite zone, Klonowka Shale Formation, Furongian (497.0 - 485.4 Ma)

• "Chabowe Doly Sandstone Bed", middle-upper Upper Cambrian, Peltura Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• 60 cm 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 72275: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Beltella irae" = Leptoplastides irae Orlowski 1968 trilobite
Parabolina bella trilobite
Peltura scarabeoides trilobite
subsp. scarabeoides
Sphaerophthalmus alatus Boeck 1838 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Agnostidae
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Rugaeconidae
"Latouchella aperta" = Dorispira aperta
"Latouchella aperta" = Dorispira aperta Orlowski 1968