Wysoczki, Holy Cross Mountains, Tremadoc Chalcedonite ( of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 21.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 68.3° S, 17.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Drepanoistodus deltifer conodont zone, Wysoczki Chalcedonite Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• also known as Tremadoc Chalcedonite

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• bands of chalcedonites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. E. Holmer and G. Biernat. 2002. Lingulate brachiopods from Lower Ordovician (Tremadoc) chalcedonites, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(1):141-156 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66196: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.10.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
Acanthambonia sp., ? Acanthambonia sp., Alichovia analogica, Siphonotretella popovi n. sp., Siphonobolus uralensis
Acanthambonia sp. Cooper 1956
sp. A
? Acanthambonia sp. Cooper 1956
sp. B
 Acrotretida - Ephippelasmatidae
Mamatia retracta, Pomeraniotreta sp., Akmolina sp.
Pomeraniotreta sp. Bednarczyk 1986
Akmolina sp. Popov and Holmer 1994
 Acrotretida - Eoconulidae
Eoconulus sp.
Eoconulus sp. Cooper 1956
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Eurytreta minor, Semitreta maior, Acrotreta dissimilis, ? Ditreta dividua
Eurytreta minor Biernat 1973
 Lingulida - Paterulidae
Diencobolus subovalis
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Rowellella sp., Leptembolon cf. lingulaeformis, Elliptoglossa polonica n. sp.
Rowellella sp. Wright 1963
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
Orbithele ceratopygarum