Finnmark core 7129/10-U-01 layer 63.10m (Triassic of Norway)

Where: Norway (71.2° N, 29.3° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 19.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lundbladispora obsoleta - Tympanicysta stoschiana Assemblage Zone zone, Griesbachian (252.2 - 251.3 Ma)

• Similarities with Vardebukta Formation in Svalbard (Hochuli et al., 1989; Mangerud and Konieczny 1991,1993), with the lower Bjorne and Blind Fiord formations in the Sverdrup Basin (Fisher, 1979; Utting, 1985, 1989, pers. comm., 1993) and similar to the Wordie Creek Formation in East Greenland (Balme, 1980) and to the Toad/Grayling Formation in western Canada (Jansonius, 1962).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; silty sandstone

• lagoonale estuarine environment
• silty sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical, mechanical,

• All palynological slides are housed in the type collection of the Paleontological Museum of Oslo.

Primary reference: G. Mangerud. 1994. Palynostratigraphy of the Permian and lowermost Triassic succession, Finnmark Platform, Barents Sea. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 82:317-349 [C. Looy/F. Verbruggen/F. Verbruggen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31355: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Frederike Verbruggen on 08.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Life -
Micrhystridium spp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs
Equisetopsida
 Cupressales - Pinidae
Pilasporites
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Pilasporites spp. Balme 1956
Falcisporites
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Falcisporites spp. Leschik 1956
Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites spp. Jansonius 1962
Protohaploxypinus
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Lycopsida
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Uvaesporites sp. Döring 1965
morphon
Apiculatisporis
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Pteridopsida
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Leiotriletes sp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
sp. A
Leiotriletes spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Polypodiopsida
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Dictyophyllidites mortonii Playford and Dettmann 1965
Punctatisporites
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Punctatisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Ginkgoopsida
 Ephedrales -
Ephedripites spp. Bolkhovitina and Potonié 1958
Maculatasporites
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Lunatisporites
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Lundbladispora
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