PBDB Collection

Copper Shale Mb T1 Rossenray shaft Kamp-Lintfort (Permian of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.5° N, 6.5° E: paleocoordinates 15.2° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Copper Shale Member (Werra Formation), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue, sandy shale

• From collection 26241

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•The Copper Shale is a 1,5-2 m thick gray-blue, layered, fine sandy, marly shale - In German: Der Kupferschiefer ist als graublauer, gebaendeter, sehr feinsandiger mergelschiefer ausgebildet und 1,5-2 m maechtig

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: H. H. Ecke. 1986. Palynologie des Zechsteins und Unteren Buntsandsteins im Germanischen Becken. Dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 1-117 [C. Looy/C. Looy/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26905: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 08.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

• approx. 250 specimens counted

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unclassified
-	Thylacoidites riegelii, Scutasporites unicus, Thylacoidites granulatus, Jugasporites delasaucei, Scheuringipollenites ovatus Thylacoidites riegelii Ecke 1986 0.1-1% Scutasporites unicus Klaus 1963 1.1-4% Thylacoidites granulatus Ecke 1986 4.1-10% Jugasporites delasaucei (Potonie and Klaus 1954) Leschik 1956 4.1-10% Scheuringipollenites ovatus (Balme and Hennely 1955) Foster 1975 1.1-4%
Limitisporites
-	Limitisporites moersensis Limitisporites moersensis (Grebe 1957) Klaus 1963 1.1-4%
Lunatisporites
-	Lunatisporites acutes, Lunatisporites noviaulensis Lunatisporites acutes (Leschik 1955) Scheuring 1970 1.1-4% Lunatisporites noviaulensis (Leschik 1956) De Jersey 1979 1.1-4%
Protohaploxypinus
-	Protohaploxypinus varius, Protohaploxypinus microcorpus Protohaploxypinus varius (Bharadwaj 1962) Balme 1970 0.1-1% Protohaploxypinus microcorpus (Schaarschmidt 1963) Clarke 1965 1.1-4%
Lueckisporites
-	Lueckisporites virkkiae Lueckisporites virkkiae (Potonie and Klaus 1954) Ecke 1986 10.1-40%
Strotersporites
-	Strotersporites communis, Strotersporites richteri Strotersporites communis Wilson 1962 0.1-1% Strotersporites richteri (Klaus 1955) Van Der Laar 1980 0.1-1%
Corisaccites
-	Corisaccites alutas Corisaccites alutas Venkatachala and Kar 1966 0.1-1%
Klausipollenites
-	Klausipollenites decipiens, Klausipollenites schaubergeri Klausipollenites decipiens Jansonius 1962 0.1-1% Klausipollenites schaubergeri (Potonie and Klaus 1954) Jansonius 1962 4.1-10%