Holy Cross Mountains, Czarna Shale (Cambrian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 20.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 107.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Czarna Shale Formation, Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• Sub-Holmia Zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified sandstone

• clay and siltstone shales with intercalations of fine-grained siltstones and sandstones; sandstone intercalations increase in number towards the top of the formation; thickness of the formation estimated at least 700 m

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 72260: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella sp. Matthew 1895
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Sulcavitidae
Linevitus sp. Syssoiev 1958
Trapezovitus sp. Syssoiev 1958
Coleoloides
  -
Coleoloides sp. Walcott 1890
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
Foraminifera
 Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae