Gorlitz Synclinorium carbonates, Zweta Formation, Germany - Elicki et al. 1992: Atdabanian - Lenian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Tintinnoidella praecursa n. sp.
Elicki 1994
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
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Archaeooides granulatus
Qian 1977
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Coeloscleritophora
- Chancelloriida
- Chancelloriidae
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Chancelloria sp.
Walcott 1920
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Archiasterella pentactina
Sdzuy 1969
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Allonia sp.
Doré and Reid 1965
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Heteractinida
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Heteractinida indet.
Hinde 1888
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Scyphozoa
- Anabaritida
- Anabaritidae
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Cambrotubulus corniformis n. sp.
Elicki 1994
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
type locality | ||||||||||
Trilobita
- Redlichiida
- Ellipsocephalidae
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Comluella sp.
Hupe 1953
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Lusatiops sp.
Richter 1941
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Agnostida
- Calodiscidae
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Calodiscus lobatus
(Hall 1847)
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Inarticulata
- Inarticulata
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Inarticulata indet.
Huxley 1869
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Orthothecimorpha
- Exilithecida
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Obliquatheca aldanica
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Orthothecida
- Circothecidae
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Conotheca circumflexa
Rozanov et al. 1969
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Hyolithida
- Sulcavitidae
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Lenalituus sp.
Missarzhevsky 1980
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Hyolithida
- Nelegerocornidae
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Microcornus elongatus
Missarzhevsky 1980
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Bivalvia
- Fordillida
- Fordillidae
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Fordilla sibirica
Krasilova 1977
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= Fordilla germanica n. sp.
Elicki 1994
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
Elicki 1994; type locality | ||||||||||
Helcionelloida
- Helcionellida
- Stenothecidae
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Planutenia flectata n. gen., n. sp.
Elicki 1994
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
Elicki 1994; type locality | ||||||||||
Planutenia inclinata n. sp.
Elicki 1994
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
Elicki 1994; type locality | ||||||||||
Helcionelloida
- Helcionellida
- Helcionellidae
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Helcionellidae indet.
Wenz 1938
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= Tanuella ampla
Voronin et al. 1982
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Elicki 1996 | |||||||||
Zhegallo 1982 | ||||||||||
Bemella aff. jacutica
(Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966)
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
Missarzhevsky 1969 | ||||||||||
Anabarella australis
Bengtson et al. 1990
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Elicki 1996 | |||||||||
Runnegar 1990 | ||||||||||
Bemella sp.
Rozanov et al. 1969
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Elicki 1996 | |||||||||
= Capitoconus artus
Skovsted 2004
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Skovsted 2004 | |||||||||
Skovsted 2004 | ||||||||||
Helcionelloida
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Beshtashella sp.
Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
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= Beshtashella tortilis
Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
Missarzhevski in Missarzheskey & Mambetov 1981 | ||||||||||
= Beshtashella tortilis
Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981 | ||||||||||
= Beshtashella sp.
Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
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Wagner 2023 | |||||||||
Helcionelloida
- Pelagiellida
- Pelagiellidae
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Pelagiella cf. lorenzi
(Kobayashi 1939)
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= Pelagiella aff. adunca
He et al. 1984
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Elicki 1996 | |||||||||
He & Pei 1984; (yes, he re-ided this and ided new stuff as P. lorenzi) | ||||||||||
Pelagiella emeishanensis
Xing 1984
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Elicki 1996 | |||||||||
He 1984 | ||||||||||
Pelagiella lorenzi
(Kobayashi 1939)
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Elicki 1996 | |||||||||
Kobayashi 1939 | ||||||||||
Paragastropoda
- Mimospirida
- Onychochilidae
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? Yuwenia cf. bentleyi
Runnegar 1981
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Elicki 1996 | |||||||||
Runnegar 1981 | ||||||||||
Yuwenia juliana n. sp.
Elicki 1994
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
Elicki 1994; type locality | ||||||||||
Khairkhaniidae
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Khairkhania evoluto
Elicki and Schneider 1992
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Elicki 1996 | |||||||||
Zhegallo 1982 | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Artremata indet.
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Fomitechella infundibuliforms
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Rhombocorniculum cancellatum
(Cobbold 1921)
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Chlorophyceae
- Dasycladales
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Cambroclavithidae indet.
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= Cambroclavus ludvigsdorfensis n. sp.
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Elicki 1994 | |||||||||
type locality | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | Saxony | County: | Gorlitz |
Coordinates: | 51.2° North, 15.0° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.9° South, 107.5° East | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Cambrian | Epoch: | Series 2 |
Stage: | Stage 3 | 10 m.y. bin: | Cambrian 2 - Cambrian 2-3 |
*Period: | Early/Lower Cambrian | *Epoch: | Middle Caerfai |
*International age/stage: | Atdabanian - Lenian | ||
Key time interval: | Atdabanian - Lenian | ||
Age range of interval: | 521 - 510 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Zwetau | Member: | Ludwigsdorf | ||
Local section: | Ludwigsdorf Section, Great Ludwigsdorf Quarry | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: The Upper Ludwigsdorf Member is cyclinically developed with 5 cycles of fossiliferous limestone grading into phacoidal limestone. Each cycle is 2-14 meters thick. There is an overall shallowing of the environment with crossbedding, load casts, ripple marks, and cut and fill near the top of the member. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified silty "limestone" | ||
Environment: | peritidal | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Geology comments: Formation is part of the Gorltiz Synclinorium |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | original phosphate |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | chemical,mechanical,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Collection method comments: Fossil structures may be obscured by sparitisation with a majority of the specimens found in coquinoid layers withing the sandy carbonate beds (bioclastic wakestone and bioclastic floatstone) |
Metadata
Database number: | 6899 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky, P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Borkow, P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2000-04-09 09:45:57 | Last modified: | 2001-03-26 14:04:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-03-26 12:03:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
431. | O. Elicki and J. Schneider. 1992. Lower Cambrian (Atdabanian/Botomian) shallow-marine carbonates of the Gorlitz synclinorium (Saxony/Germany). Facies 26:55-66 [W. Kiessling/P. Borkow/P. Wagner] |
Secondary references:
13333 | O. Elicki. 1994. Lower Cambrian carbonates from eastern Germany:palaeontology, stratigraphy and palaeogeography. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 191(1):69-93 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
13334 | O. Elicki. 1996. Die Gastropoden und Monoplacophoren der unterkambrischen Görlitz-Fauna. Freiberger Forschungsheft C 464:145-173 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
13308 | C. B. Skovsted. 2004. Mollusc fauna of the Early Cambrian Bastion Formation of North-East Greenland. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 51(1):11-37 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
9042 | P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |