Zagaje Formation

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
Sub-units	Huta Mudstone Member
Underlies	Przysucha 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°06′N 20°30′E / 51.1°N 20.5°E / 51.1; 20.5Coordinates: 51°06′N 20°30′E / 51.1°N 20.5°E / 51.1; 20.5
Approximate paleocoordinates	43°06′N 18°48′E / 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)

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 know for it´s 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 in Denmark.^[1]

See also[]

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

References[]

Bibliography[]

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