Finnmark core 7128/12-U-01 layer 116.49m (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 - 252.3 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 31380: 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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Vesicaspora
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Lunatisporites
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Maculatasporites
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Protohaploxypinus
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Protohaploxypinus spp. Samoilovitch 1953
Lueckisporites
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Pilasporites
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Pilasporites spp. Balme 1956
Equisetopsida
 Cupressales - Pinidae
Acanthotriletes
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Acanthotriletes spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Acanthotriletes tereteangulatus Balme and Hennelly 1970
Sphenopsida
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Calamospora spp. Schopf et al.
Punctatisporites
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Punctatisporites spp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Thymospora
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Lycopsida
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Pteridopsida
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Leiotriletes sp. A Potonie and Kremp 1954
Leiotriletes spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Apiculatisporis
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Apiculatisporis spp. Potonié and Kremp 1956
Polypodiopsida
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Punctatosporites spp. Ibrahim 1933
Verrucosisporites spp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
 Gleicheniales - Polypodiidae
Dictyophyllidites mortonii Playford and Dettmann 1965
Triquitrites
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Klausipollenites
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Klausipollenites spp. Jansonius 1962
Klausipollenites staplinii
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Vittatina
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Vittatina spp. Wilson 1962
Indotriradites
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Indotriradites spp. Tiwari 1964
 Life -
Micrhystridium spp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs
Veryhachium spp. Deunff 1954 acritarchs