ammonites
Holy Cross Mountains, Gory Pieprzowe Shale (Cambrian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 106.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gory Pieprzowe Shale Formation, Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• middle and upper Middle Cambrian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified siltstone

• dark coloured clay and siltstone shales and siltstones with thin sandstone intercalations, up to 400 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 72272: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.05.2007