Microfossils from the pelitic sediments in the Štramberk area (Outer Western Carpathians)

 

Marcela Svobodová, Lenka Hradecká, Petr Skupien, Lilian Švábenická

Geoscience Research Reports 35, 2002 (GRR for 2001), pages 105–109

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Abstract

Sporomorphs, foraminifers, dinoflagellate cysts and calcareous nannoplankton were recovered from the Cretaceous dark pelitic sequences of the Main quarry Kotouč (Silesian Unit, Outer West Carpathians) overlying the Tithonian-Lower Berriasian Štramberk limestone body. Preliminary results of the biostratigraphic study enabled to distinguish two associations of microfossils of different age - late Albian-Cenomanian and Valanginian-Hauterivian age. Both Tethyan and Boreal nannofossil elements were found in the samples of the Lower Cretaceous age. Dinoflagellate cysts of Valanginian-Hauterivian age characterise the shallow neritic sea while dinocysts of Albian-Cenomanian come from deeper part of the neritic sea.