- Bavarian Environment Agency, Geological Survey, Hof, Germany (matthias.kranner@lfu.bayern.de)
In the year 2014 the so far oldest Bavarian fossil (a typical archaeocyathid hollow horn formed sponge) with an age of ~520 ma was identified near Schwarzenbach/Wald (north-east Bavaria-Germany).
Recently, the Bavarian Environment Agency started the hunt for a new oldest Bavarian. In 1988 Reitz and Höll described one specimen of Acritarcha with moderately bad preservation of the Prasinit-Phyllit-Series (PPS) of north eastern Bavaria and claimed a pre-Cambrian age for the deposit. Nevertheless, recent studies show that a continuative pre-Cambrian or even Cambrian age of the PPS cannot be provided and therefore the biostratigraphic dating has to be checked intensely.
Therefore, analyses of three different outcrops (Sparneck and Schwarzenbach/Saale outcrop 1 and 2) have been conducted to test and/or verify the pre-Cambrian age.
If a pre-Cambrian age can be confirmed and suitable Acritarcha of the PPS can be found and identified, this will not only be the oldest Bavarian but also the oldest confirmed German (fossil) ever found.
How to cite: Kranner, M.: The hunt for the oldest Bavarian – Acritarcha of the Prasinit-Phyllit-Series (Münchberg Massif), EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, 27 Apr–2 May 2025, EGU25-8210, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-8210, 2025.
