Swietokrzyskie Mnt, Czarna Shale Fm, Hyolithes-Allatheca zone (Cambrian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.9° N, 20.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 107.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hyolithes-Allatheca zone, Czarna Shale Formation, Nemakit-Daldynian (541.0 - 530.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; shale and siltstone

• clay and siltstone shales with intercalations of fine-grained siltstones and sandstones
• clay and siltstone shales

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: S. Ortowski. 1989. Trace fossils in the Lower Cambrian sequence in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains, Central Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 34(3):13-20 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153012: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Life -
Scolicia sp. de Quatrefages 1849
Planolites montanus Richter 1937
Planolites beverleyensis Billings 1862
Oldhamia antiqua Forbes 1849