Volpriehausen Fm Remlingen 5 borehole depth 1755m 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: Volpriehausen Formation (Buntsandstein Group), 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 27292: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 29.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• approx. 250 specimens counted
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 Life -
Leiosphaeridia sp.
Leiosphaeridia sp. Eisenack 1958
sp. A and B Ecke 1986 present
unclassified
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Syndesmosphaerion volpriehausenensis n. sp.
Syndesmosphaerion volpriehausenensis n. sp.
Ecke 1986 present
Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales -
Densoisporites playfordii
Densoisporites playfordii clubmoss
(Balme 1963) Balme 1970 1.1-4%
 Coniferales -
Voltziaceaesporites heteromorpha
Cycadopites
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Cycadopites follicularis
Cycadopites follicularis Wilson and Webster 1946
Wilson and Webster 1946 1.1-4%
Lunatisporites
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Lunatisporites noviaulensis
Lunatisporites noviaulensis
(Leschik 1956) De Jersey 1979 0.1-1%
Endosporites
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Endosporites ? papillatus
Endosporites ? papillatus
Jansonius 1962 1.1-4%
Lundbladispora
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Lundbladispora willmottii
Lundbladispora willmottii
Balme 1963 0.1-1%