Copper Shale T1 Jaworze 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: Copper Shale 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; dolomite and argillaceous 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.
• marly dolomites and argillaceous mudstones with sulfide mineralisations

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 24989: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 24.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Illenites unicus
Kosanke 1950
Jugasporites delasaucei
(Potonie and Klaus) Leschik 1956
Tympanicysta sp.
fungal (Visscher 1996) or algal (Foster et al 2003) remains
Triadispora
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Lunatisporites
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Lunatisporites noviaulensis
(Leschik) Scheuring 1970
Lueckisporites
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Lueckisporites virkkiae
Potonie and Klaus 1954 (Aa/Ab)
Cycadopites
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Cycadopites coxxi
Visscher 1966
Limitisporites
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Limitisporites moersensis
(Grebe) Klaus 1963
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus niger podocarp
Maedler 1964
Klausipollenites
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Vittatina
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Vittatina vittifera
(Luber and Waltz) Samoilovich 1953
Hamiapollenites
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 Life -
Acritarcha indet. Evitt 1963 acritarchs
Veryhachium trispinoides acritarchs
(Jekhowsky) Fijalkowska 1994
Veryhachium irregulare acritarchs
Jekhowsky 1961
Veryhachium sp. Deunff 1954 acritarchs
Baltisphaeridium debilispinum acritarchs
Wall and Downie 1963
Baltisphaeridium sp. Eisenack 1958 acritarchs