Biostratigraphy and taxonomy of fusulinid foraminifera across the Upper Mississippian (upper Serpukhovian)–Lower Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian) successions from the Hadim Nappe, Central Taurides, southern Turkey

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Melikan Akbaş ◽  
Cengiz Okuyucu

Abstract The Hadim Nappe, which is one of the allochthonous tectonic units in the Tauride Belt, in southern Turkey, includes a continuous stratigraphic succession from the Middle(?)–Late Devonian to Late Cretaceous. A relatively complete succession of the upper Serpukhovian to Bashkirian is exposed in the Central Taurides, where two sections (Yassıpınar and Gölbelen) have been selected for detailed biostratigraphic investigations. The Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary in these sections was determined by the first appearance datum of the Plectostaffella jakhensis and located in the oolitic limestone facies indicating a shallow-water depositional environment. The uppermost Serpukhovian and regional Bashkirian substages (Syuranian, Akavasian, Askynbashian, and Arkhangelskian) were determined by index taxa, namely Plectostaffella jakhensis, P. bogdanovkensis, P. varvariensis, Pseudostaffella antiqua, Staffellaeformes staffellaeformis, Tikhonovichiella tikhonovichi, and Verella spicata. Fifty fusulinid species belonging to fourteen genera were determined in two sections, in which two species are new: Depratina turani Akbaş new species and Tikhonovichiella praetikhonovichi Akbaş new species. The taxonomic positions of two fusulinid species (Depratina convoluta n. comb. and Staffellaeformes parva robusta n. comb.) are revised. The studied fusulinid assemblages correlate with fusulinid assemblages from the southern Urals, Russian Platform, Donetz Basin, Darvaz, Spain, central Iran, and some other regions of the Tethyan Realm. UUID: http://zoobank.org/bcbb6c72-f6f9-4e77-9cf9-3572bd731ff3

1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 952-958 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. Johnson ◽  
R. B. Blodgett

The Middle Devonian brachiopod genus Cyrtinoides, described from the southern Urals, is a senior subjective synonym of Mucroclipeus, previously known only from eastern and western North America. The Middle and Late Devonian cyrtinid brachiopod genus Komiella, previously known only from the Timan Range of eastern Europe, is identified from west-central Alaska and Nevada. A new family Komiellidae is proposed. New species are Komiella gilberti, K. magnasulca, and K. stenoparva. Known species of both genera occupy carbonate platform foreslope facies or shelf basins, allowing open marine migration via peripheral biofacies.


2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra V. Dzhenchuraeva ◽  
Cengiz Okuyucu

Abstract. Fusulinid faunas of the Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian–Moscovian) deposits of the Siyah Aladag Nappe were investigated from the Kuzuoluk section located in the eastern Taurides. The section is represented by grey, occasionally laminated, algal and fusulinid-rich limestones. The foraminiferal faunas of the Kuzuoluk section are very diverse and abundant which allows identification of the Bashkirian–Moscovian boundary by index-species such as Verella spicata and Aljutovella aljutovica. Other key taxa in the Bashkirian–Moscovian interval include Pseudostaffella grandis and Staffellaeformes staffellaeformis (Bashkirian Stage, upper part of the Lower Substage), Ozawainella pararhomboidalis and Staffellaeformes bona (Bashkirian Stage, Upper Substage), Verella spicata (Bashkirian Stage, Upper Substage) and Aljutovella aljutovica Zones (Moscovian Stage, Lower Substage). The Bashkirian–Moscovian microfaunas from the Kuzuoluk section can be correlated with assemblages from Tien-Shan, the Southern Urals and the Russian Platform.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Liubov Mikhailovna Bukhman ◽  
Nikolay Sergeevich Bukhman

The article is devoted to the study of new representatives of the genus Kerpia Naugolnykh from Novyi Kuvak located in Shentalinsky district (northeast of Samara region). The genus Kerpia for ginkgo similar leaves was set by S.V. Naugolnykh in 1995 on the material from the Kungurian stage of the Middle Urals. Typical species of this genus is Kerpia macroloba Naugolnykh. In the diagnosis of the genus S.V. Naugolnykh showed the most important signs of this genus: presence of lobes and sinuses of the 1st and 2nd order, distinct petiole and two veins included in lamina from the petiole. Later, in 2001, from the sediments of Kazanian stage of the Southern Urals S.V. Naugolnykh described a new species Kerpia belebeica Naugolnykh. In 2013 in Novyi Kuvak location we found impressions of ginkgo similar leaves with on the one hand a great similarity with the known members of the genus Kerpia ( Kerpia macroloba and Kerpia belebeica ), but on the other hand they are clearly not identical to this representative at the species level. According to the results of the study of these impressoins in 2014 we described a new species of the genus Kerpia - Kerpia samarica N.S. Bukhman et L.M. Bukhman, 2014. In this paper we give description of both known and new findings of species Kerpia samarica and a comparison of this species with other species of the genus Kerpia .


2019 ◽  
Vol 294 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduard V. Mychko ◽  
Rodney M. Feldmann ◽  
Carrie E. Schweitzer ◽  
Alexander S. Alekseev

Within the crustacean group Cyclida, Prolatcyclus gen. nov. includes two species, Prolatcyclus martinensis (Goldring, 1967) and P. kindzadza sp. nov., described from the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian, upper Viséan) of England and the Southern Urals of Russia, respectively. Members of the genus have a unique feature for cyclids – large hypertrophied second axial lobes. The species P. kindzadza is 2.5 times larger than P. martinensis. Both species are exclusively inhabitants of reef environments.


1993 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 310-313
Author(s):  
Alan L. Titus

The late Mississippian ammonoid family Delepinoceratidae is comprised of the genera Platygoniatites and Delepinoceras, and is considered one of the more biostratigraphically significant families for lower Namurian correlation (Manger et al., 1985). Platygoniatites, the earliest member, is known from eastern and southern Europe (Ruzhencev and Bogoslovskaya, 1971; Wagner-Gentis, 1963, 1980) and North Africa (Lemosquet et al., 1985). Despite its wide distribution, Platygoniatites is generally a rare member (with the exception of the southern Ural Mountains) of latest Visean and earliest Namurian faunas. It has never been reported previously from North America, though thousands of ammonoids have been collected here from age equivalent beds. The discovery of a new species of the genus in the late Mississippian faunas of east-central Nevada provides new data for precise correlation of the ammonoid zonations of Gordon (1970) to the type Namurian and indicates a need for revision of the current correlations between the southern Urals and northwestern Europe.


1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 726-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick S. Rogers

The Little Cedar and lower Coralville formations of the Cedar Valley Group (Middle Devonian) of Iowa were deposited on a cratonic, shallow-water, carbonate and evaporite shelf during the Taghanic onlap. Four conodont subzones, zones, or cratonic biofacies faunas can be recognized in this sequence of strata. They are, in ascending order, the Middle varcus Subzone (recognized in the lower Little Cedar Formation), the hermanni zone (recognized in the middle Little Cedar Formation), the Lower subterminus Fauna (recognized in the upper Little Cedar Formation), and the Upper subterminus Fauna (recognized in the lower Coralville Formation). The Lower subterminus Fauna and the Upper subterminus Fauna represent a possible zonal span from the Lower hermanni Zone to the Upper disparilis Zone of the standard conodont zonation.In the Polygnathus- and Icriodus-dominated conodont faunas studied is a biostratigraphically useful new species. Polygnathus klugi new species is a Polygnathus dubius-like form that occurs sporadically and in small numbers in the Middle varcus Subzone, the hermanni Zone, and the Upper subterminus Fauna. However, it occurs consistently and in large numbers in the Lower subterminus Fauna, where it is the characterizing species. It has also been recovered from core samples both in central Alberta, Canada, and the Russian Platform. In both areas, it is associated with conodonts of the subterminus faunal interval.


Paleobiology ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. McGhee

The Late Devonian extinction event was not geologically “instantaneous,” in that extinctions during the epoch are not concentrated into a single sharp pulse at the end of the Frasnian. Extinction rates are elevated for a period of at least 2 to 4 m.y. during the middle and late phases of the Frasnian, with maximum rates occurring generally 2 m.y. before the terminal Frasnian. Neither was the Late Devonian biotic crisis a “gradual” event. In the analysis of the evolution of ecosystems, it is misleading to consider the pattern of extinction rates alone. Frasnian marine ecosystems flourished during the same time interval characterized by elevated extinction rates because origination rates of new species are higher, per time interval, than corresponding extinction rates. This pattern of relative origination/extinction rates abruptly reversed during the latest Frasnian—precipitating a rapid loss of species diversity. Within limits of current stratigraphic correlation, the ecosystem collapse appears to have occurred simultaneously in such widespread geographic regions as New York State (U.S.A.) and the southern Urals (U.S.S.R.).In viewing the Late Devonian event from an ecological perspective, the most important question is not “What triggered the elevated extinction rates?”, but rather “What was the inhibiting factor that caused the cessation of new species originations?”


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