Roggenstein Remlingen 5 borehole depth 1832m Remlingen (Permian of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.1° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° N, 23.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rogenstein Member (Bernburg Formation), Buntsandstein (259.5 - 251.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green claystone and gray, green siltstone

• gray green clay- and silt layers - In German: graugruenen Ton- oder Schluffzwischenlagen

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 27270: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 27.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• approx. 250 specimens counted
unclassified
  -
Syndesmosphaerion klarrii
Ecke 1986 present
Endosporites
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Endosporites ? papillatus
Jansonius 1962 0.1-1%
Cycadopites
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Cycadopites follicularis Wilson and Webster 1946
Wilson and Webster 1946 1.1-4%
Lycopsida
  -
Kraeuselisporites apiculatus
Jansonius 1962 0.1-1%
Lunatisporites
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Lunatisporites noviaulensis
(Leschik 1956) De Jersey 1979 1.1-4%
Lunatisporites acutes
(Leschik 1955) Scheuring 1970 0.1-1%
Lunatisporites pellucidus
(Goubin 1965) Helby in De Jersey 1972 1.1-4%
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales -
Densoisporites playfordii clubmoss
(Balme 1963) Balme 1970 4.1-10%
Densoisporites nejburgii clubmoss
(Schultz 1964) Balme 1970 1.1-4%
 Life -
Leiosphaeridia sp. Eisenack 1958
sp. A and B Ecke 1986 present
Lundbladispora
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Lundbladispora willmottii
Balme 1963 4.1-10%
Lundbladispora zwolinska
Ecke 1986 . 0.1-1%
Lundbladispora obsoleta
Balme 1970 0.1-1%