Upper Anhydrite A1g-c Tumlin-Podgrodzie IG1 borehole Kielce (Permian to of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 20.7° E: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 28.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Anhydrite Formation (Werra Group), Wuchiapingian to Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• The following lithological complexes are currently distinguished within the Zechstein on the so-called "near" Permian-Mesozoic edge of the Holy Cross Paleozoic core: Zechstein Limestone (Ca1) locally underlaying by the Copper-Bearing Shale (in German Kupfer schiefer; T1), Lower Anhydrite (Ald) in some sections, Terrigenious Series (T1r) and Upper Anhydrite (A1g) which all form the Werra Cycle (PZ1); the Strassfort Cycle (PZ2) is developed as the Terrigenous Series (T2r), the Grey Pelite (T3), Platy Dolomite (Ca3) and only locally Main Anhydrite (A3) represents the Leine Cycle (PZ3). The uppermost Zechstein deposits consist of the Top Terrigenous Series (Pzt).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; evaporite and mudstone

• The Holy Cross Mountains belonged to the costal zone of he Germanic basin during the Late Permian and Upper Triassic. Terefore some members of the Zechstein and Buntsandstein lithological sections are missing or reduced in comparison to the deeper part of the basin.
• In text: In the top part of the PZ1 cycle there are sulphate rocks which correspond to the Upper Anhydrite. The thickness varies from 2 to 28 m. In the majority of boreholes this series is bipartate, divided by thin, several meters thick layers of brown claystones and mudstones. Its lower part is composed of anhydrites laminated with clay, the upper one is dominated by sulphates. Equivalents of these rocks are mudstones with the thin layers of algal limestones in the southern subregion. In these deposits there is also a sedimentary breccia corresponding most probably to the Upper Anhydrite Breccia (BrA1g).

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. Fijalkowska. 1994. Palynological aspects of the Permo-Triassic succession in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Documenta Naturae 87:1-76 [C. Looy/C. Looy/C. Looy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24928: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 23.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites schaubergeri, Klausipollenites sp.
Klausipollenites schaubergeri
Potonie and Klaus 1954
Klausipollenites sp. Jansonius 1962
Lunatisporites
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Lunatisporites noviaulensis, Lunatisporites sp.
Lunatisporites noviaulensis
(Leschik) Scheuring 1970
Lueckisporites
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Lueckisporites virkkiae
Lueckisporites virkkiae
Potonie and Klaus 1954 Aa/Ab - C
Polypodiopsida
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Verrucosisporites sp.
Verrucosisporites sp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Strotersporites
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Strotersporites sp.