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	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°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 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]