Ocieseki Sandstone Formation - Orlowski 1985: Atdabanian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771
Trilobita - Atopidae
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Trilobita - Redlichiida - Holmiidae
Aglaspidida - Strabopidae
Gastropoda
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Hyolithida
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962
unclassified
Rusophycus sp. Hall 1852
Cruziana sp. d'Orbigny 1842
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 51.0° North, 20.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.7° South, 10.7° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian *Epoch:Middle Caerfai
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Tommotian - Atdabanian
Key time interval: Atdabanian Zone:  Holmia - Protolenus
Age range of interval: 521 - 515.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ocieseki Sandstone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Was Tommotian-Atdabanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified sandstone
Lithology description: gray and olive colored sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Sandstones containing the fossils were deposited along the south-western margin of the Precambrian European platform.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Taxonomic list includes generic identification for trilobites, brachiopods, hyolithids, and gastropods which were found in the sequence, but not identified past phylum or class.
Metadata
Database number:7905
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-06-06 13:25:46 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-06-06 13:25:46
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
511. S. Orlowski. 1985. A trilobite with North American affinity in the Lower Cambrian of Poland. Journal of Paleontology 59(4):975-978 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]