Chitinozoan faunas from the Rugen Ordovician (Rugen 5/66 and Binz 1/73 wells), NE Germany
Samuelsson, J.; Verniers, J.; Vecoli, M. (2000). Chitinozoan faunas from the Rugen Ordovician (Rugen 5/66 and Binz 1/73 wells), NE Germany. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol. 113(1-3): 131-143. dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0034-6667(00)00056-7
In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. Elsevier: Tokyo; Oxford; Lausanne; New York; Shannon; London; Amsterdam. ISSN 0034-6667; e-ISSN 1879-0615, more
The island of Rugen (NE Germany), situated close to the Trans-European Suture Zone (TESZ). in the southern Baltic Sea is underlain by sedimentary rocks of an Early Palaeozoic age, known only from boreholes. The wells, Rugen 5/66 and Binz 1/73, were investigated for their chitinozoan assemblages to improve the earlier biostratigraphic dating (graptolites and acritarchs) and to facilitate comparisons with other chitinozoan assemblages on both sides of the TESZ. In the lower part of the Rugen 5/66 core (3794.7-3615.8 m), Lagenochitina destombesi Elaouad-Debbaj is indicative of an early late Tremadoc age. In the upper part of the same well (3287.3-1709.7 m), the observed chitinozoan taxa suggest an age spanning the early Llanvirn to the Caradoc. The entire sampled interval of the Binz 1/73 core (5217.6-5041.8 m) is interpreted as belonging to the Siphonochitina formosa Biozone (early-early late Abereiddian, corresponding to the early Llanvirn). The chitinozoan data corroborate the earlier suggested biostratigraphic ages, based on acritarchs and graptolites. The chitinozoans from the Binz 1/73 well point to a high latitude provenance of the investigated host sediments at time of deposition.
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