scholarly journals Condylopyge HAWLE et CORDA, 1847 in the Příbram-Jince Basin (Barrandian area, the Czech Republic, Agnostida)

Author(s):  
Oldřich Fatka ◽  
František Knížek ◽  
Vladislav Kozák
Author(s):  
Michal Mergl

AbstractProblematic phosphatic sclerites Eurytholia are reported for the first time from the Middle Devonian. Unequivocal sclerites were observed in limestones of Emsian to late Eifelian age in six localities of the Barrandian area of the Central Bohemia of the Czech Republic. Formerly observed size and shape variations of Eurytholia sclerites prevent formal description of a new species on few specimens of Emsian and Eifelian age. Therefore the new specimens are identified as Eurytholia aff. bohemica. Their presence indicates longer time range of the Eurytholia animal, covering not only the Ordovician, the Silurian and the earliest Devonian as known formerly, but also late Lower Devonian and the Middle Devonian. Similar features in morphology and histology of Eurytholia indicate relationship to a conodont Pseudooneotodus and a support suggestion about the vertebrate origin of Eurytholia sclerites.


2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Pavel Bokr ◽  
Radek Mikuláš ◽  
Petr Budil ◽  
Petr Kraft

Upper Ordovician shallow marine fine-grained sandstones and siltstones exposed in the Loděnice – vinice locality yielded a distinct and well-preserved tiering pattern of trace fossils. The two uppermost tiers are composed mainly of Bifungites and Nereites. Deeper in the sediment, tiers dominated by Thalassinoides, Zoophycos and Teichichnus occur. Most of the succession is completely bioturbated; however, several storm layers enabled study of a well-preserved frozen tiering pattern. Large portions of the bedding planes (ichnologic snapshots) showed a considerable patchiness of intensive surface bioturbation and a preferred orientation of Bifungites. The identified tiering pattern is one of the earliest examples of a well-documented complex tiering of burrows documented in detail.


Author(s):  
Martin Valent ◽  
Oldřich Fatka ◽  
Ladislav Marek

The rare hyolith Alfaites romeo gen. et sp. nov. is described from the lower half of the middle Cambrian (Drumian) Buchava Formation of the Skryje-Týřovice Basin in the Barrandian area of the Czech Republic. This new taxon is based on excellently preserved external and internal moulds of three opercula and several conchs collected from carbonate nodules and shale. This rare species has been established at three separate outcrops in the lower part of the Biozone of Paradoxides (Eccaparadoxides) pusillus (Barrande 1846). Morphology of conch and both external and internal surface of operculum are well known. However, specific morphology excludes assignment to any predescribed hyolithid family.


2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 672-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise Nardin ◽  
Bertrand Lefebvre ◽  
Oldřich Fatka ◽  
Martina Nohejlová ◽  
Libor Kašička ◽  
...  

AbstractThe primitive blastozoanFelbabkacystis luckaen. gen. n. sp. is described from the Drumian Jince Formation, Barrandian area (Czech Republic) from eleven fairly well-preserved specimens. Its unique body plan organization is composed of a relatively long, stalk-like imbricate structure directly connected to the aboral imbricate cup of the test and of an adoral vaulted tessellate test supporting the ambulacral and brachiolar systems. Its bipartite test, called prototheca, highlights the evolution of the body wall among blastozoans.Felbabkacystisn. gen. shows the combination of plesiomorphic (imbricate stalk-like appendage) and derived features (highly domed peristome, elongate epispires). The new genus is interpreted as a transitional form between calyx-bearing and theca-bearing blastozoans, and is attributed to the new family Felbabkacystidae. The lithology, the associated fauna, and the possession of a long stalk suggest thatFelbabkacystiswas probably a low-level suspension feeder living in relatively deep settings.


2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-140
Author(s):  
Oldřich Fatka ◽  
Martin Valent

Abstract Hyoliths recorded from the middle Cambrian Jince Formation of the Barrandian area in the Czech Republic are reviewed and listed, based on various published papers printed since 1854. Up to now, only five species of hyolithids and three species of orthothecids have been reported, classified within seven genera. The reported material was collected from more than twenty small occasional outcrops and/or sections measuring up to several tens of meters in thickness, all situated exclusively in the area between the villages Felbabka and Čenkov in the Litavka River Valley. From the Paseky Shale member of the Holšiny-Hořice Formation at the Medalův mlýn locality, the first hyolith classified as “Hyolith genus and species indeterminate” is described. The new study of two specimens described and figured by Barrande in 1867 as Hyolithes primus made it possible to classify them as Jincelites vogeli and Jincelites sp. respectively.


Author(s):  
Michal Mergl

Abstract The first occurrence of fenestrate bryozoans is reported from the Acanthopyge Limestone (Eifelian) in the Koněprusy area of the Czech Republic. Fragmented zoaria have been identified in lightgrey crinoidal-limestone rich with brachiopods, corals, and stromatoporoids. Several species of fenestrates are evident, but poor preservation and fragmentation of zoaria allow only approximate taxonomic determination. The fenestrates, Fenestella sp., Laxifenestella (?) sp., Hemitrypa sp., Polyporella sp., Ptylopora sp., and Reteporina sp., are illustrated and briefly described. The presence of fenestrates has a great palaeoenvironmental significance. Fenestrates together with brachiopods, stromatopoids, and corals indicate a high-energy reef environment on the Koněprusy submarine elevation in the upper Eifelian. Morphology of fenestrates and high morphological disparity of brachiopods are remarkably similar to the faunas of the Pragian age in the Koněprusy area suggesting a similar reef environment. The upper Eifelian age of the locality is evidenced by conodonts of the Tortodus kockelianus Zone.


2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 327-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milan Libertín ◽  
Jiří Kvaček ◽  
Jiří Bek ◽  
Petr Štorch

Plant mega- and microfossils are described from the middle Sheinwoodian of the Barrandian area. The material comes from the Loděnice locality and the same horizon as the earliest unequivocal land plant, Cooksonia barrandei LIBERTÍN, J.KVAČEK, BEK, ŽÁRSKÝ et ŠTORCH. Its age (432 Myr) is inferred from the associated graptolite fauna, including the zonal index graptolite Monograptus belophorus. Megafossils have clear similarity with Cooksonia, due to their dichotomised axes with slightly widened subtending axes bearing putative sporangia. They document some of the plant diversity that was in place when the first proven representative of the genus Cooksonia appeared, and together with dispersed spores they provide strong and important evidence that a diversified terrestrial ecosystem had developed on the Barrandian volcanic archipelago in the peri-Gondwanan realm by the end of the Sheinwoodian Stage of the Silurian Period.


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