Finnmark core 7128/12-U-01 layer 119.09m (Permian to of Norway)

Where: Norway (71.2° N, 28.8° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 23.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scutasporites sp. cf. S. unicus - Lunatisporites sp. Concurrent Range Zone zone, Kazanian to Kazanian (272.5 - 254.1 Ma)

• Similar to the assemblages of the Kapp Starostin Formation on Svalbard (Mangerud and Konieczny 1991, 1993) and those from Trold Fiord Formation in Sverdrup Basin (Utting, 1989) and to those recorded in the Tatarian stratotype in Russia (Koloda et al., 1992)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: glauconitic, pebbly, gray, cherty/siliceous shale

• pebbly shale with clasts of chert, glauconite, greyish and brownish shale present

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 31377: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Frederike Verbruggen on 09.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Life -
Micrhystridium spp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs
Veryhachium spp. Deunff 1954 acritarchs
Klausipollenites staplinii
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Equisetopsida
 Cupressales - Pinidae
Alisporites
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Alisporites spp. Daugherty 1941
Falcisporites
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Lunatisporites
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Florinites
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Limitisporites
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Limitisporites spp. Leschik 1956
Vittatina
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Lueckisporites
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Lueckisporites sp. A Potonié and Klaus
Lueckisporites spp. Potonié and Klaus
Sphenopsida
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Calamospora spp. Schopf et al.
Ginkgoopsida
 Caytoniales -
Protohaploxypinus
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 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus spp. Naumova 1954 podocarp
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Conbaculatisporites
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Lycopodiopsida
 Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Neoraistrickia spp. Potonié 1956 spikemoss
Polypodiopsida
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Punctatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933
  - Osmundaceae
Baculatisporites spp. Thomson and Pflug 1953
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Dictyophyllidites mortonii Playford and Dettmann 1965
Pteridopsida
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Leiotriletes sp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
sp. A
Leiotriletes spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Granulatisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Lycopsida
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Vesicaspora
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