Top Terrigenious Series Pzt-a Zachelmie 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: Top Terrigenious Series Formation, 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; conglomeratic sandstone and conglomeratic 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: Composed of brown sandstones and sandy mudstones with carbonate nodules and - less often - of claystones and conglomerates near the Paleozoic core. In log: sandstones and mustones with conglomerate intercalations

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 25969: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 30.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Sporites
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Sporites indet. PotoniƩ 1893
Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites schaubergeri
Potonie and Klaus 1954
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus niger podocarp
Maedler 1964
Triadispora
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Triadispora plicata Klaus 1964
Klaus 1964 sensu Brugman 1979
Lunatisporites
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Lunatisporites cf. alatus
(Klaus) Fijalkowska 1994
Lunatisporites noviaulensis
(Leschik) Scheuring 1970
Falcisporites
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Falcisporites zapfei
(Potonie and Klaus) Leschik 1955
Cycadopites
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Cycadopites sp. Wodehouse 1933
Limitisporites
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Limitisporites sp. Leschik 1956