First report of aboral cups of the crinoid family Parahexacrinidae from the Middle and Upper Devonian of the Eifel (Germany) and the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (12) ◽  
pp. 1569-1577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Bohatý
Keyword(s):  
Upper Devonian ◽  
First Report ◽  
Holy Cross Mountains

The first report of a macroloxoceratine cephalopod from the North American Mississippian

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
North American ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Canal System ◽  
First Report ◽  
The North ◽  
Rare Group

The pseudorthoceratid subfamily Macroloxoceratinae Flower, 1957, comprises a rare group of nautiloid cephalopods homeomorphic with the Actinoceratida in the development of a siphonal canal system. With the exception of Macroloxoceras Flower, 1957, from the Upper Devonian of Colorado and New Mexico, this subfamily has previously been reported only from the Mississippian of Europe. A specimen described herein from the late Viséan–?early Namurian Kennetcook Limestone of the Windsor Group of Nova Scotia, assigned to Campyloceras cf. C. unguis (Phillips, 1836), extends the range of the Macroloxoceratinae into the North American Mississippian. This discovery further provides new data on the complex siphonal morphology of this poorly known group of nautiloids, and supplements the recent documentation of the pseudorthoceratids in the Windsor Group cephalopod fauna (Edgecombe, 1987).

An enigmatic blastozoan echinoderm fauna from central kentucky

2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 739-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin D. Sumrall ◽  
Carlton E. Brett ◽  
Troy A. Dexter ◽  
Alexander Bartholomew
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Middle Devonian ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Late Ordovician ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Range Extension ◽  
First Report ◽  
Appalachian Foreland

A series of small road cuts of lower Boyle Formation (Middle Devonian: Givetian) near Waco, Kentucky, has produced numerous specimens of three blastozoan clades, including both “anachronistic” diploporan and rhombiferan “cystoids” and relatively advanced Granatocrinid blastoids. This unusual assemblage occurs within a basal grainstone unit of the Boyle Limestone, apparently recording a local shoal deposit. Diploporans, the most abundant articulated echinoderms, are represented by a new protocrinitid species, Tristomiocystis globosus n. gen. and sp. Glyptocystitoid rhombiferans are represented by isolated thecal plates assignable to Callocystitidae. Three species of blastoids, all previously undescribed, include numerous thecae of the schizoblastid Hydroblastus hendyi n. gen. and sp., the rare nucleocrinid Nucleocrinus bosei n. sp., and an enigmatic troosticrinid radial. The blastoid Nucleocrinus is typical for the age; however, the callocystitid, schizoblastid, and protocrinitid are not. Hydroblastus is the oldest known schizoblastid. Middle and Upper Devonian callocystitids have been previously reported only from Iowa and Michigan USA with unpublished reports from Missouri USA and the Northwest Territories, Canada. This occurrence is thus the first report of a Middle Devonian rhombiferan from the Appalachian foreland basin. Tristomiocystis is the first known protocrinitid in North America and the only protocrinitid younger than Late Ordovician. This occurrence thus represents a range extension of nearly 50 million years for protocrinids. This extraordinary sample of echinoderms in a Middle Devonian limestone from a well-studied area of North America highlights the incompleteness of the known fossil record, at least in fragile organisms such as echinoderms.

Upper Devonian Sponges from the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland

Palaeontology ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Keith Rigby ◽  
Andrzej Pisera ◽  
Tomasz T. Wrzolek ◽  
Grzegorz Racki
Keyword(s):  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Holy Cross Mountains ◽  
Central Poland

scholarly journals Famennian ostracods from the Istanbul zone (Gebze, Kocaeli, NW Turkey) and their paleogeographical relations

2012 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 355-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atike Nazik ◽  
Șenol Çapkinoğlu ◽  
Emine Șeker
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Late Devonian ◽  
Rhenish Massif ◽  
Cantabrian Mountains ◽  
Holy Cross Mountains ◽  
Thin Walls ◽  
Nw Turkey ◽  
Conodont Zonation ◽  
First Time

Abstract Famennian (Late Devonian) ostracods of the Thuringian Mega-Assemblage were recovered for the first time from three incomplete sections of the Ayineburnu Member of the Büyükada Formation in the Denizliköy area (Gebze, NW Turkey), which were sampled for conodonts. Conodont faunas define an interval extending from the Upper rhomboidea? or Lower marginifera Zone into the Middle expansa Zone of the standard Upper Devonian conodont zonation. The ostracod faunas found here consist of species mainly with thin-walls, long spines and often smooth surfaces such as Rectonaria, Tricornina, Orthonaria, Triplacera, Beckerhealdia, Timorhealdia, Bohemina, Paraberounella and Acratia. These taxa indicate faunal relationship with Thuringia and the Rhenish Massif in Germany, the Cantabrian Mountains and Pyrenees in Spain, Holy Cross Mountains in Poland, North Africa and China.

scholarly journals Bioerosion traces and borings in the Upper Devonian vertebrate remains from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland Bioerosion in fish remains

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Szrek ◽  
Patrycja G. Dworczak ◽  
Olga Wilk
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Trace Fossils ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Holy Cross Mountains ◽  
Shallow Tunnels ◽  
Shallow Water Environment ◽  
Storm Wave ◽  
Fish Remains

Among the hundreds of collected Devonian vertebrate macrofossils in the Holy Cross Mountains, placoderms dominate and provide data on their morphology, distribution and taphonomy. So far 17 out of more than 500 studied specimens have revealed bones with surfaces covered by sediment-filled trace fossils. The traces have been made on the vertebrate remains before their final burial. The borings, oval in cross-section, include dendroidal networks of shallow tunnels or short, straight or curved individual scratches and grooves, which frequently create groups on the both sides of the bones. ?Karethraichnus isp. from Kowala and ?Osteocallis isp. from Wietrznia are the oldest record of these ichnogenera. Sedimentological clues indicate a shallow water environment, probably from the slope below the storm wave base.

scholarly journals The Storm Surge Recorded in a Thin Section

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Vierek
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Storm Surge ◽  
Thin Section ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
Holy Cross Mountains ◽  
Storm Waves ◽  
Internal Structures

Limestone and sandstone beds deposited by storms are called tempestites, and exhibit much variation in thickness, grain size and internal structures, depending on the proximity and on the intensity of the storm waves. In this paper, diagnostic features of storm beds observed in thin sections, was presented.Characteristic features are investigated on the basis of detailed study in the Upper Devonian carbonates in the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland).

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