Finnmark core 7129/10-U-01 layer 72.27m: Kazanian - Zechstein, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Protohaploxypinus globus microspore
Scutasporites cf. unicus microspore
Protohaploxypinus perfectus microspore
Protohaploxypinus spp. microspore Samoilovitch 1953
Vittatina costabilis microspore
Vittatina saccata microspore
Vittatina spp. microspore Wilson 1962
Vittatina striata microspore
Tiwariasporis spp. microspore Maheshwari and Kar 1967
Striatoabieites spp. microspore
Sphenopsida
Calamospora spp. microspore Schopf et al.
unclassified
Klausipollenites staplinii microspore Jansonius 1962
Florinites luberae microspore
Veryhachium spp. marine palyn Deunff 1954
Michrystridium spp. marine palyn
see common names

Geography
Country:Norway
Coordinates: 71.2° North, 29.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.6° North, 23.8° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian - Lopingian
Stage: Roadian - Wuchiapingian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 3 - Permian 4
*Period:Middle - Late/Upper Permian - Late/Upper Permian *Epoch:Middle Zechstein - Late/Upper Zechstein
*International age/stage:Kazanian - ?Tatarian
Key time interval: Kazanian - Zechstein Zone:  Scutasporites sp. cf. S. unicus - Lunatisporites sp. Concurrent Range Zone
Age range of interval: 273.01 - 254.14 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local bed:72.27m
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Similarities with Kapp Starostin Formation in Svalbard (Mangerud and Konieczny 1991,1993), with the Trold Foird Formation in the Sverdrup Basin (Utting, 1989; and similar to those assemblages recorded in the Tatarian stratotype n Russia (Koloda et al., 1992)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: a bryozoan/brachiopod/crinoidal packstone
Environment:offshore shelf
Geology comments: storm-influenced shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original sporopollenin
Size of fossils:microfossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,chemical,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: All palynological slides are housed in the type collection of the Paleontological Museum of Oslo.
Metadata
Database number:31350
Authorizer:C. Looy Enterer:F. Verbruggen
Modifier:F. Verbruggen Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-05-08 07:13:06 Last modified:2003-05-08 10:13:08
Access level:the public Released:2003-05-08 07:13:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8467. G. Mangerud. 1994. Palynostratigraphy of the Permian and lowermost Triassic succession, Finnmark Platform, Barents Sea. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 82:317-349 [C. Looy/F. Verbruggen/F. Verbruggen]