Bed No. 5. Wydryszow, Holy Cross Mountains (Devonian of Poland)

Also known as Świętokrzyskie

Where: Poland (51.0° N, 21.1° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 46.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Wydryszow Member (Grzegorzowice Formation), Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Given as Couvinien, but works from the 21st century put these lithologies into the Wydryszow member of the Grzegorzowice formation, which is late Emsian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and marl

• limestones and marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Osmolska. 1957. Trilobites from the Couvinian of Wydryszów (Holy Cross Mts., Poland). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 2(1):53-83 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164486: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 03.12.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
"Acaste (Acastoides) paeckelmanni" = Acastoides paeckelmanni, "Asteropyge (Rhenops) jani n. sp." = Rhenops
"Acaste (Acastoides) paeckelmanni" = Acastoides paeckelmanni Richter and Richter 1939 trilobite
"Asteropyge (Rhenops) jani n. sp." = Rhenops trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion (Otarion) praecedens trilobite
Otarion (Otarion) polonicum praecedens
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus (Proetus) "sp. A" Steininger 1931 trilobite
Proetus (Proetus) "sp. B" Steininger 1931 trilobite
 Proetida - Scharyiidae
Scharyia couviniana n. sp. Osmolska 1957 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Scutellum (Scutellum) sp. Pusch 1833 trilobite