Korpad formation borehole M1 Mecsek Mountains Hungary (Permian of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (46.2° N, 17.9° E: paleocoordinates 7.7° S, 30.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Korpad Formation, Permian (298.9 - 251.9 Ma)

• This is built up by clastic rocks of predominantly red colour, but green and grey sandstones, too, occur frequently in it. Frequency of burrowing organisms is a characteristic feature of the reddisch brown, siltic, fine grained sandstones which close the cycle.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; bioturbated, gray, green, silty sandstone

• The Korpad sandstone formation rests disconformably on Precambrian granites. On the uneven surface of the Korpad Sandstone formation the Gyurufu Quartzporphyry formation rests with a low angle disconformity.
• This is built up by clastic rocks of predominantly red colour, but green and grey sandstones, too, occur frequently in it. Frequency of burrowing organisms is a characteristic feature of the reddisch brown, siltic, fine grained sandstones which close the cycle.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, chemical,

Primary reference: A. Barabas-Stuhl. 1981. Microflora of the Permian and Lower Triassic sediments of the Mecsek Mountains (south Hungary). Acta Geologica Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae 24(1):49-97 [C. Looy/C. Looy/C. Looy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24307: authorized by Cindy Looy, entered by Cindy Looy on 05.08.2002

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Taxonomic list

• ref. 6870: The poor macroflora collected from this formation has been determined by G. Andreanszky (1961) as follows: Voltzia heterophylla Brgt., Pecopteris sp.. Presence of Voltzia heterophylla is, however, ambigous as this species is characteristic for the higher beds of the Lower Triassic.

•Note - The article on which these comments are based are not found in the reference list.

Show authors, comments, and common names
unclassified
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Cordaitina sp., Potieisporites novicus, Potieisporites bharadwaji, Jugasporites omai
Potieisporites novicus
Bharadwaj 1954
Potieisporites bharadwaji
Remy and Remy 1961
Jugasporites omai
Helby 1966
Vesicaspora
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cf. Vesicaspora wilsoni
Voltziopsida
 Voltziales - Voltziaceae
Voltzia heterophylla
Voltzia heterophylla Brongniart 1828
Brongiart
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Pinaceae
Pityosporites sp.
Pityosporites sp. Seward 1914
Falcisporites
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Falcisporites sp.
Falcisporites sp. Leschik 1956
Pteridopsida
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Leiotriletes sp.
Leiotriletes sp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Pteropsida
 Filicinae -
Pecopteris sp.
Pecopteris sp. Brongniart 1822