Holy Cross Mountains, Usarzow Sandstone: Middle Cambrian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Paradoxides insularis
Paradoxides oelandicus Sjögren 1872
Paradoxides pinus Westergard 1936
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Protolenus (Protolenus) polonicus
Ellipsocephalus polytomus
Ellipsocephalus guerichi
Ellipsocephalus puschi
Ellipsocephalus jugoszovi
Kingaspis (Kingaspis) henningsmoeni
Strenuella (Comluella) samsonowiczi
Strenuella (Comluella) hupei
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 50.7° North, 21.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° South, 106.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Miaolingian
10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 3-4
Key time interval: Middle Cambrian Trilobite zone:  Paradoxides oelandicus
Age range of interval: 509 - 497 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Usarzow Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: lower Middle Cambrian, Oelandicus stage
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: fine- and medium-grained quartz sandstones with subordinate clay and siltstone shale intercalations, up to 400 m thick
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:72269
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-05-30 00:17:30 Last modified:2021-04-10 22:28:19
Access level:the public Released:2007-05-30 00:17:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24458.1% 15200S. 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]