Lower Magnesium Limestone (lower) Sutton borehole Nottinghamshire (Permian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.6° N, 15.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Magnesium Limestone Formation (EZ1 Group), Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• Lower Magnesium Limestone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical

• more info in Warringtom in press - not yet found

Primary reference: J. Pattison, D.B. Smith, and G. Warrington. 1973. A review of Late Permian and Early Triassic biostratigraphy in the British Isles. The Permian and Triassic systems and their mutual boundary 220-260 [C. Looy/C. Looy/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27105: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 18.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• percentage based on 1500 specimens
unclassified
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Endosporites
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? Endosporites sp. Wilson and Coe
Protohaploxypinus
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Protohaploxypinus sp. Samoilovitch 1953
4 genera
Labiisporites
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Labiisporites sp. Leschik
1 genus
Lueckisporites
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Lueckisporites sp. PotoniƩ and Klaus
1 genus
Falcisporites
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Falcisporites sp. Leschik 1956
1 genus
Nuskoisporites
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Nuskoisporites sp. PotoniƩ and Klaus
3 genera
Vestigisporites
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Vestigisporites sp. Balme and Hennelly
1 genus
Cycadopites
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Cycadopites sp. Wodehouse 1933
1 genus
Crustaesporites
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Crustaesporites sp. Leschik
1 genus
Taeniaesporites
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Taeniaesporites sp. Leschik
8 genera
Angiospermae
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? Monosulcites sp. Cookson and Couper 1953
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus sp. Naumova 1954 podocarp
2 genera
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Striatopodocarpites sp. Sedova 1956 yew
3 genera
Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites sp. Jansonius 1962
1 genus
Vittatina
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Vittatina sp. Wilson 1962
1 genus