Grey Pelite T3 Fallstein-Nord I borehole Hahausen (Permian of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.0° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 16.6° N, 21.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Leine zone, Grey Pelite T3 Member (Leine Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray mudstone and gray siltstone

• T3

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 26974: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 11.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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 1.1-4%
Scheuringipollenites ovatus
(Balme and Hennely 1955) Foster 1975 1.1-4%
Protohaploxipinus limpidus
(Balme and Hennely 1955) Balme and Playford 1967 0.1-1%
Striatoabieites germanicus
(Maedler 1964) Van Buggenum 1985 0.1-1%
Lunatisporites
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Lunatisporites acutes
(Leschik 1956) De Jersey 1979 0.1-1%
Lunatisporites noviaulensis
(Potonie and Klaus 1954) Jansonius 1962 4.1-10%
Guttulapollenites
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Guttulapollenites hannonicus
Goubin 1965 0.1-1%
Nuskoisporites
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Nuskoisporites dulhuntyi
Potonie and Klaus 1954 0.1-1%
Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites decipiens
Jansonius 1962 0.1-1%
Corisaccites
  -
Corisaccites alutas
Venkatachala and Kar 1966 0.1-1%
Stellapollenites
  -
Stellapollenites sp. Lele 1965
sp. A Ecke 1986 0.1-1%
Protohaploxypinus
  -
Protohaploxypinus varius
(Bharadwaj 1962) Balme 1970 0.1-1%
Protohaploxypinus microcorpus
(Schaarschmidt 1963) Clarke 1965 1.1-4%
Protohaploxypinus goralensis
(Potonie and Lele 1961) Hart 1964 0.1-1%
Lueckisporites
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Lueckisporites virkkiae
(Potonie and Klaus 1954) Ecke 1986 10.1-40%