Holy Cross Mountains, Jugoszow Sandstone (Cambrian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 21.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° S, 107.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Paradoxides insularis trilobite zone, Jugoszow Sandstone Member (Usarzow Sandstone Formation), Amgan (510.2 - 504.5 Ma)

• lower Middle Cambrian, Insularis Zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• fine-grained, thick-bedded, light-gray quartz sandstones, about 10 m thick

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 72270: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
Ellipsocephalus polytomus, Ellipsocephalus sandomiri, Ellipsocephalus guerichi, Ellipsocephalus jugoszovi, Strenuella (Comluella) samsonowiczi, Protolenus (Protolenus) polonicus, Kingaspis (Kingaspis) henningsmoeni
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Paradoxides insularis, Paradoxides torelli, Paradoxides samsonowiczi, Paradoxides oelandicus
Paradoxides oelandicus Sjögren 1872 trilobite