Bagå Formation (Jurassic to of Denmark)

Where: Capital, Denmark (55.2° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.8° N, 21.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Bagå Formation (Bornholm Group), Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 166.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• Most of its more than 270m consists of sands, heteroliths, clays and coals typically in fining upwards cycles.

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collection methods: core, surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

• It is likely that the spores were isolated from both outcrop and borehole samples simply by washing in water and sieving the generally poorly consolidated sediments.

Primary reference: E. B. Koppelhus and D. J. Batten. 1992. Megaspore assemblages from the Jurassic and lowermost Cretaceous of Bornholm, Denmark. DGU, Danmarks Geologiske Undersogelse, Serie A 32:1-81 [R. Lupia/B. Wilborn/B. Wilborn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33543: authorized by Rick Lupia, entered by Brooke Wilborn on 02.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Lycopodiopsida
 Isoetales -
Minerisporites sp. Potonie 1956 clubmoss
Bacutriletes
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Horstisporites
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Paxillitriletes
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Paxillitriletes sp. 1 Hall and Nicolson 1973
Paxillitriletes sp. 2 Hall and Nicolson 1973
Paxillitriletes sp. 3 Hall and Nicolson 1973