Anhydrite Mb A1 SR9/1 borehole Fulda (Permian of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.6° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 14.9° N, 22.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anhydrite A1 Member (Werra Formation), Zechstein (259.5 - 254.1 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; evaporite

• anhydrite - In German: Anhydrit

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, 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 26970: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 11.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

• approx. 250 specimens counted
unclassified
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Scutasporites unicus
Klaus 1963 0.1-1%
Thylacoidites granulatus
Ecke 1986 1.1-4%
Jugasporites delasaucei
(Potonie and Klaus 1954) Leschik 1956 4.1-10%
Scheuringipollenites ovatus
(Schaarschmidt 1963) Clarke 1965 0.1-1%
Protohaploxipinus limpidus
(Balme and Hennely 1955) Balme and Playford 1967 0.1-1%
Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites decipiens
Jansonius 1962 1.1-4%
Klausipollenites schaubergeri
(Potonie and Klaus 1954) Jansonius 1962 10.1-40%
Lunatisporites
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Lunatisporites acutes
(Leschik 1955) Scheuring 1970 1.1-4%
Lunatisporites noviaulensis
(Leschik 1956) De Jersey 1979 0.1-1%
Limitisporites
  -
Limitisporites moersensis
(Grebe 1957) Klaus 1963 1.1-4%
Vittatina
  -
Vittatina costabilis
Wilson 1962 sensu Klaus 1963 0.1-1%
Lueckisporites
  -
Lueckisporites virkkiae
(Potonie and Klaus 1954) Ecke 1986 10.1-40%
Protohaploxypinus
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Protohaploxypinus varius
(Bharadwaj 1962) Balme 1970 0.1-1%
Protohaploxypinus microcorpus
(Schaarschmidt 1963) Clarke 1965 0.1-1%
Nuskoisporites
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Nuskoisporites dulhuntyi
Potonie and Klaus 1954 0.1-1%
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus papilionis podocarp
Potonie and Klaus 1954 0.1-1%
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Striatopodocarpites fusus yew
(Balme and Hennely 1955) Potonie 1958 0.1-1%
Guttulapollenites
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Guttulapollenites hannonicus
Goubin 1965 0.1-1%
Strotersporites
  -
Strotersporites richteri
(Klaus 1955) Van Der Laar 1980 0.1-1%
Corisaccites
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Corisaccites alutas
Venkatachala and Kar 1966 0.1-1%
Playfordiaspora
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Playfordiaspora crenulata
(Wilson 1962) Foster 1979 0.1-1%