Finnmark core 7129/10-U-01 layer 65.51m: Kazanian - Zechstein, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cordaitina spp. microspore
Rewanispora sp. microspore
Scutasporites spp. microspore
Scutasporites cf. unicus microspore
Striatoabieites spp. microspore
Striatoabieites multistriatus microspore
Unellium spp. marine palyn
Scolecodont indet.
Vesicaspora spp. microspore Schemel 1951
Vesicaspora schemelii microspore
Punctatisporites spp. microspore Potonié and Kremp 1954
Falcisporites spp. microspore Leschik 1956
Alisporites spp. microspore Daugherty 1941
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus spp. microspore Naumova 1954
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Piceapollenites sp. microspore Potonié
sp. A
Pinopsida - Pinales - Taxaceae
Striatopodocarpites spp. microspore Sedova 1956
unclassified
Limitisporites spp. microspore Leschik 1956
Protohaploxypinus samoltovichii microspore
Protohaploxypinus varius microspore
Protohaploxypinus perfectus microspore
Protohaploxypinus spp. microspore Samoilovitch 1953
Lycopodiopsida - Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Neoraistrickia spp. microspore Potonié 1956
unclassified
Klausipollenites staplinii microspore Jansonius 1962
Cycadopites spp. microspore Wodehouse 1933
Ginkgoopsida - Caytoniales
Vitreisporites signatus microspore Leschik 1956
Sphenopsida
Calamospora spp. microspore Schopf et al.
unclassified
Lueckisporites sp. microspore Potonié and Klaus
sp. A
Lueckisporites sp. microspore Potonié and Klaus
sp. B
Lueckisporites spp. microspore Potonié and Klaus
Equisetopsida - Cupressales
Inaperturopollenites nebulosus microspore
Lycopsida
Kraeuselisporites spinosus microspore
unclassified
Polycingulatisporites spp. microspore Simoncsics and Kedves 1961
Pteridopsida
Granulatisporites spp. microspore Potonié and Kremp 1954
Leiotriletes spp. microspore Potonie and Kremp 1954
Polypodiopsida
Verrucosisporites spp. microspore Potonie and Kremp 1954
unclassified
Apiculatisporis spp. microspore Potonié and Kremp 1956
Lunatisporites spp. microspore Leschik
Vittatina minima microspore
Vittatina costabilis microspore
Vittatina saccata microspore
Vittatina simplex microspore
Vittatina vittifera microspore
Vittatina spp. microspore Wilson 1962
Vittatina striata microspore
Florinites spp. microspore Schopf et al.
Florinites luberae microspore
Micrhystridium spp. marine palyn Deflandre 1937
Veryhachium spp. marine palyn Deunff 1954
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:65.51m
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 in Russia (Koloda et al., 1992)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,pebbly,gray,red or brown cherty/siliceous "shale"
Secondary lithology: phosphorite
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: phosphoritic bed and a layer of pebbly shale with clasts of chert, glauconite, greyish and brownish shale and black phosphorite with indications of erosion.
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:31352
Authorizer:C. Looy Enterer:F. Verbruggen
Modifier:F. Verbruggen Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-05-08 07:27:53 Last modified:2003-05-08 10:27:56
Access level:the public Released:2003-05-08 07:27:53
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]