Zagaje Formation

The Zagaje Formation is an Early Jurassic Epoch (Hettangian-Sinemurian) geologic formation located mostly in Poland with layers also exposed in north Germany. This unit is known for its diverse Ichnofossil assemblages, with traces of invertebrates along vertebrate footprints. Indeterminate fossil ornithischian tracks, of the Hettangian Stage, have been reported from the formation.^[4] The Zagaje Formation correlates with The lower part of the Höganäs Formation in Scania, as well the Munkerup Member and the Gassum Formation in Denmark.^[1]

Zagaje Formation
Stratigraphic range: Lower Hettangian-Lower Sinemurian~200–196 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ [1]
Exposed Layers at Sołtyków
Type	Geological formation
Unit of	Kamienna Group
Sub-units	Huta Mudstone Member
Underlies	Przysucha Formation Ostrowiec Formation
Overlies	Unnamed Rhaetian Beds
Area	Polish epicontinental basin except of the Mazury region and Czêstochowa region. Reaches also into north Germany
Thickness	157.5 m
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Other	Mudstone
Location
Coordinates	51.1°N 20.5°E / 51.1; 20.5
Approximate paleocoordinates	43.1°N 18.8°E / 43.1; 18.8
Region	Swietokrzyskie
Country	Poland  Germany[2]
Type section
Named for	The Town of Zagaje near Gromadzice
Named by	Karaszewski (as an informal unit)[3]
Zagaje Formation (Poland)

See also

• Early Jurassic Europe
• List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate ornithischian tracks

References

1. Pieñkowski, G. (2004). "The epicontinental Lower Jurassic of Poland". Polish Geological Institute Special Papers. 12 (1): 1–154. S2CID 128922070.
2. Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission (2016). "Stratigraphische Tabelle von Deutschland" (PDF). GeoForschungsZentrum. 1 (1): 1. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
3. Karaszewski, W. (1962). "The stratigraphy of the Lias in the Northern Mesozoic Zone surrounding the Święty Krzyż Mountains (Central Poland) [Eng. Sum.]". Pr. Inst. Geol. 30 (3): 333–416.
4. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

Bibliography

• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, retrieved 2019-02-21