Synopsis of fossil fish fauna from the Hermanowa locality (Rupelian; Central Paratethys; Poland): current state of knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Přikryl ◽  
Iwona Kania ◽  
Wiesław Krzemiński
Fossil Record ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Young ◽  
J. M. Moody

A new Devonian fossil fish fauna from the region of Caño Colorado between the Rio Palmar and Rio Socuy, Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela, comes from two localities and several horizons within the Campo Chico Formation, dated on plants and spores as Givetian-Frasnian in age. Placoderms are most common, with the antiarch <i>Bothriolepis perija</i> n. sp., showing affinity with species from the Aztec fish fauna of Victoria Land, Antarctica. A second antiarch, <i>Venezuelepis mingui</i> n.g. n.sp., is also closely related to an Antarctic species, which is reassigned to this new genus. Fragmentary remains of a phyllolepid placoderm show similarity to the genus <i>Austrophyllolepis</i> from southeastern Australia. Chondrichthyan spines are provisionally referred to the Antarctilamnidae, and acanthodian remains include spines of the widespread taxon <i>Machaeracanthus</i>. Osteichthyans are represented by osteolepid and dipnoan scales and teeth, and scales lacking cosmine which may belong to another major taxon. This fauna has provided the first Devonian record from South America of three major fish groups: antiarch and phyllolepid placoderms, and dipnoans. These are widely distributed on most other continents. Although invertebrates and plants from the same sequence closely resemble those of eastern North America, the endemic elements in the fish fauna indicate Gondwana affinities. Phyllolepid placoderms are common in Givetian-Frasnian strata of Australia and Antarctica, but are only known from the Famennian in the Northern Hemisphere. The new phyllolepid occurrence extends their range across the northern margin of Palaeozoic Gondwana. The age and affinities of this new fish fauna are consistent with a model of biotic dispersal between Gondwana and Euramerica at or near the Frasnian-Famennian boundary. A narrow marine barrier separating northern and southern continental landmasses is indicated, in contrast to the wide equatorial ocean for the Late Devonian postulated from palaeomagnetic data. <br><br> Es wird eine neue devonische Fischfauna aus dem Gebiet zwischen Caño Colorado und Rio Socuy, Sierra de Perijá, beschrieben. Die Funde stammen aus zwei Lokalitäten und mehreren Horizonten innerhalb der Campo Chico Formation, die auf Grundlage von Untersuchungen der Pflanzen- und Sporenfunde dem Zeitabschnitt Givetium-Frasnium zugeordnet werden. Placodermen sind durch den Antiarchen <i>Bothriolepis perija</i> n. sp. häufig vertreten. Sie sind mit Arten der Aztec-Fischfauna von Viktoria Land, Antarktis, verwandt. Ein zweiter Antiarche, der <i>Venezuelepis mingui</i> n. g. n. sp. ist eng mit einer Spezies aus der Antarktis verwandt, die ebenfalls dieser neuen Gattung zugeschrieben wird. Fragmentarische Reste eines phyllolepiden Placodermen weisen Ähnlichkeiten mit der Gattung <i>Austrophyllolepis</i> aus dem Südosten Australiens auf. Wirbel eines Chondrichthyer werden vorläufig den Antarctilamnidae zugeschrieben. Acanthodir-Reste schließen das weitverbreitete Taxon <i>Machaeracanthus</i> ein. Osteichthyer sind durch Schuppen und Zähne osteolepider Sarcopterygier und Dipnoi vertreten. Andere Schuppen, denen die Cosminschicht fehlt, gehören vermutlich zu einem anderen Haupttaxon. Damit ist durch diese Fauna der erste Nachweis für das Vorkommen der drei Hauptfischgruppen Antiarchi, phyllolepide Placodermi und Dipnoi im Devon Südamerikas erbracht. Sie sind auch auf den meisten anderen Kontinenten weit verbreitet. Obwohl Invertebraten und Pflanzen aus derselben Zeit sehr denen aus dem Osten Nordamerikas ähneln, weisen die endemischen Elemente in der Fischfauna auf eine Affinität zu Gondwana hin. Phyllolepide Placodermen sind im Givetium-Frasnianium Australiens verbreitet, aber erst aus dem Famennium in der Nordhemisphere bekannt. Das Auftreten eines neuen Phyllolepiden weitet den Vorkommensbereich über die nördliche Linie des paläozoischen Gondwanas hinaus aus. Alter und Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen dieser neuen Fischfauna stimmen mit dem Modell der biotischen Verbreitung zwischen Gondwana und Euramerika an bzw. nah an der Frasnium-Famennium-Grenze überein. Es gibt Hinweise für eine die nördlichen und südlichen Landmassen trennende schmale Meerenge. Dies steht im Gegensatz zur Annahme eines weiten äquatorialen Ozeans im späten Devons, die sich auf palaeomagnetische Daten stützt. <br><br> doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mmng.20020050111" target="_blank">10.1002/mmng.20020050111</a>


2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
О. М. Kovalchuk ◽  
V. A. Marareskul ◽  
D. S. Zakharov ◽  
T. F. Obadă

Abstract A fossil fish remnants from the Early Pliocene strata of the Dniester valley (Republic of Moldova) are described in the paper. Seven species, belonging to 6 genera, 4 families and 4 orders (Acipenseriformes, Cypriniformes, Siluriformes, Esociformes) were identified in Nikolskoe and Uyutnoe localities. All of them are analogues of extant taxa. A brief review of development of the freshwater fish fauna in the Lower Dniester Basin during the Early Pliocene is presented.


2018 ◽  
Vol 769 ◽  
pp. 377-382
Author(s):  
Alexander Strelkov ◽  
Svetlana Teplykh ◽  
Pavel Gorshkalev ◽  
Anastasia Bystranova

The paper aims to assess fish fauna current state and water withdrawal impact on biological water resources. It also describes a plan of fish stock restoration designed for a certain real object to compensate for the damage caused and analyses results of its implementations.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav G. Semenov

Aim. The aim of the research is to identify and characterize the current composition and state of the fish fauna of the Lake Bolshoe Toko. Methods. Age determination was conducted based on the annual rings on the scales, taken under the back fin above the lateral line; coefficient of fatness was determined on a six-point scale by Fulton and Clark, respectively. The rest of the material was also processed according to the generally accepted methods in ichthyology. Results. As a result of the research, for the first time was obtained updated data on age, height, sex ratio, spatial distribution of fish species in the lake, relative dominant species in this lake; some data on nutrition and helminth infection is also given in this article. Conclusions. Lake Bolshoe Toko is represented by fish of three faunal complexes, of which two species of fish are not typical representatives of the lake ichthyofauna; stuntedness and a high level of infection of the Siberian whitefish by helminthes is due to a high probability of overpopulation in the lake. Small and valuable breeds of fish that live in the lake need protection throughout the basin adjacent to the lake reservoirs.


Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4563 (3) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
VICTOR W.M. VAN HINSBERGH ◽  
RENATE A. HELWERDA

We studied fish otoliths from twelve sediment samples of a well-preserved late Pliocene to early Pleistocene fauna originally from the northwest Philippines that were originally deposited in relatively deepwater marine environment. The fish fauna is systematically described, its paleoenvironmental character is explored, and its diversity is analyzed. Four unknown species have been encountered: Parascombrops schwarzhansi n. sp., Maurolicus sp., Pteropsaron sp., and Priolepis sp., of which one is described as new species and three were left in open nomenclature as their local recent counterparts are not well known yet. In addition, a variant Benthosema, Benthosema aff. fibulatum, is described. Overall, fifty-three taxa of fish otoliths were found, of which eighteen were identified at the species level and an additional twenty-seven at the genus level. Most extant species nowadays occur around the Philippines in relatively deep water (about 200 m depth), which is congruent with earlier studies on mollusks and echinoderms from the same deposits. This is the first study on a fossil fish otolith assemblage from the Philippines. Its diversity is very high and analysis by rarefaction curves suggests that additional sampling would add more fish species to the presented fauna list. 


2013 ◽  
Vol 115 (3 &amp; 4) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin R. Jansen ◽  
Kenshu Shimada ◽  
James I. Kirkland

2021 ◽  
Vol 151 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-409
Author(s):  
Márton Szabó ◽  
László Kocsis ◽  
Mariann Bosnakoff ◽  
Krisztina Sebe

Chondrichthyans and osteichthyans are widely reported from marine sediments of the Central Paratethys, not only by sporadic occurrences, but also by complex, diverse fish assemblages. Here we present a rich fish fauna from the upper Miocene (Pannonian, Tortonian) lacustrine sediments exposed in the Pécs-Danitzpuszta sand pit, in the SW Pannonian Basin. Altogether 22 227 specimens were investigated, and they could be classified into 17 chondrichthyan and 16 osteichthyan taxa. Among the chondrichthyans Odontaspididae (55.51%) and Myliobatidae (14.4%) are the most abundant, while the bony fishes are dominated by the Sparidae (77.07%). The limonitic, yellow, coarse-grained, gravelly sands yielded an extremely large amount of isolated fish fossils. A considerable part of the vertebrate material of the sands is likely reworked from older, middle Miocene (Badenian and Sarmatian, i.e. Langhian and Serravallian) sediments. The late Miocene calcareous marls underlying the sands also yielded a variety of fish remains. From these remains, associated and articulated latid bones are coeval with the sediment and suggest freshwater and brackish conditions in the area, in accord with other biotic data. Other, isolated fossils, namely teeth, otoliths, cycloid scales and jaw elements of Gadidae, Gobiidae, Sparidae and Latidae could be reworked and thus have a very limited paleoecological significance. Based on habitat preferences of extant relatives, all chondrichthyans and most osteichthyan taxa found in the sands must be of Badenian origin. The abundant remains allow for some conclusions on the environmental conditions during the Badenian. They refer to a shallow, coastal environment with tropical-subtropical climate with connection to more open water habitats. Remains of some osteichthyan taxa were found in coprolites, showing that these taxa were part of the food chain as prey items. Sirenian ribs and odontocete limb bones bearing tooth marks refer to trophic relations between marine mammals and large sized macropredatory sharks. The Pécs-Danitzpuszta record of shark-attributed bite marks on bones of marine mammals is the second of the Badenian of the Central Paratethys. Acipenserids and latids of the sands, linked to brackish and/or freshwater environments, could originate from any Miocene stratigraphic units.


1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 145-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Smith Woodward
Keyword(s):  

Since the publication of the notes on some new fishes from the English Purbeck and Wealden Beds five years ago, the Rev. W. R. Andrews, of Teffont, has kindly entrusted to the writer for examination a fine series of Purbeckian fishes from the Vale of Wardour. All the members of this fauna are remarkably diminutive, compared with those met with in the corresponding formation in Dorsetshire; but nearly all the species are well preserved, and some are sufficiently novel to be worthy of detailed description. The Pycnodont genus Mesodon, which was first described from the English Purbeck in the paper already cited, is here represented by one or two more forms; the Lepidosteoid Macrosemius is now first definitely recorded as a British fossil; additional examples of Pleuropholis extend previous information of that genus; new specimens of Leptolepis Brodiei add to the known specific characters of this fish; and the opportunity is now afforded for publishing a figure of the small Palæoniscid, Coccolepis andrewsi.


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