Emsian-Eifelian lingulate brachiopods from the Daleje-Třebotov Formation (Třebotov and Suchomasty limestones) and the Choteč Formation (Choteč and Acanthopyge limestones) from the Prague Basin; the Czech Republic

 

Authors: Mergl M, Vodražkova S

Published in: Bulletin of Geosciences, volume 87, issue 2; pages: 315 - 332; Received 7 July 2011; Accepted in revised form 11 January 2012; Online 29 March 2012

Keywords: Brachiopoda, Linguliformea, Biernatidae, Opsiconidion, Orbaspina, Emsian, Eifelian, Basal Choteč Event, Prague Basin,

full text (PDF, 3.59 MB)

Export to RIS

 

Abstract

Taxonomic composition and stratigraphic distribution of lingulate brachiopod taxa around the Emsian/Eifelian boundary of the Prague Basin were examined. Twelve species have been determined and the presence of others is suggested. The prevalence of micromorphic biernatids, Havlicekion and Opsiconidion, in all the studied samples is significant. A mode of life for biernatids, especially from the genus Opsiconidion, is discussed. A new Devonian occurrence of the siphonotretid Orbaspina is recorded. Lingulate brachiopods do not display any significant change around the Emsian/Eifelian boundary or at the Basal Choteč Event (Middle Devonian, Eifelian, costatus Zone) and thus confirm the general uniformity of lingulate faunas in the Lower and early Middle Devonian.

References

Barrande, J. 1879. Systeme silurien du centre de la Boheme. Iere partie. Recherches paléontologiques. Vol. 5. Classe des Mollusques. Ordre des Brachiopodes. 226 pp. Prague & Paris.

Barron, L.S. & Ettensohn, F.R. 1981. Paleoecology of the Devonian-Mississippian black-shale sequence in eastern Kentucky with an atlas of some common fossils. 75 pp. Department of Geology, University of Kentucky, Kentucky Research Group.

Bassett, M.G. 1984. Life strategies of Silurian brachiopods. Special Papers in Palaeontology 32, 237–263.

Bassett, M.G. & Bryant, C. 1993. The micromorphic rhynchonelloidean brachiopod lamdarina from the type Dinantian. Journal of Palaeontology 67(4), 518–527.View article

Bassett, M.G., Popov, L.E. & Holmer, L.E. 1999. Organophosphatic brachiopods: patterns of biodiversification and extinction in the early Palaeozoic. Geobios 32(1), 145–163.View article

Bednarczyk, W. & Biernat, G. 1978. Inarticulate brachiopods from the Lower Ordovician of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Acta Palaeontological Polonica 23(3), 293–316.

Berkyová, S. 2009. Lower-Middle Devonian (upper Emsian-Eifelian, serotinus-kockelianus zones) conodont faunas from the Prague Basin, the Czech Republic. Bulletin of Geosciences 84(4), 667–686.View article

Berkyová, S. & Munnecke, A. 2010. “Calcispheres” as a source of lime mud and peloids – evidence from the early Middle Devonian of the Prague Basin, the Czech Republic. Bulletin of Geosciences 85(4), 585–602.View article

Biernat, G. 1984. Silurian inarticulate brachiopods from Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 29(1–2), 91–103.

Bischoff, G. & Ziegler, W. 1957. Die Conodontenchronologie des Mitteldevons und des tiefsten Oberdevons. Abhandlungen des Hessischen Landesamtes für Bodenforschung 22, 1–136.

Botting, J.P. 2002. The role of pyroclastic volcanisms in Ordovician diversification, 99–113. In Crame, J.A & Owen, A.W. (eds) Paleobiogeography and biodiversity change: the Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic radiations. Geological Society of London, Special Publications 194.

Bouček, B. 1941. O novém odkryvu siluru u Loděnic. Zprávy Geologického ústavu pro Čechy a Moravu 17, 165–172.

Brunton, C.H.C. & Champion, C. 1974. A Lower Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Manifold Valley, Staffordshire. Palaeontology 17, 811–840.

Carney, R.S. 1981. Nutrients, 136–142. In Boucot, A.J. (ed.) Principles of benthic marine paleocology. Academic Press, New York.

Chlupáč, I. 1957. Faciální vývoj a biostratigrafie středočeského spodního devonu. Sborník Ústředního ústavu geologického, Oddíl geologický 23, 369–485.

Chlupáč, I. 1977. The phacopid trilobites of the Silurian and Devonian of Czechoslovakia. Rozpravy Ústředního ústavu geologického 43, 1–172.

Chlupáč, I. 1983. Trilobite assemblages in the Devonian of the Barrandian area and their relations to palaeoenvironments. Geologica et Palaentologica 17, 43–73.

Chlupáč, I. & Kukal, Z. 1986. Reflection of possible global Devonian events in the Barrandian area, C.S.S.R. Lecture Note in Earth Sciences, 169–179.View article

Chlupáč, I. & Kukal, Z. 1988. Possible global events and the stratigraphy of the Palaeozoic of the Barrandian (Cambrian-Middle Devonian, Czechoslovakia). Sborník geologických věd, Geologie 43, 83–146.

Chlupáč, I., Lukeš, P. & Zikmundová, J. 1979. The Lower-Middle Devonian boundary beds in the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia. Geologica et Palaeontologica 13, 125–156.

Cocks, L.R.M. 1979. New acrotretacean brachiopods from the Palaeozoic of Britain and Austria. Palaeontology 22(1), 93–100.

Cooper, G.A. 1956. Chazyan and related brachiopods. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection 127, 1–1245.

Elrick, M., Berkyová, S., Klapper, G., Sharp, Z., Joachimski, M. & Frýda, J. 2009. Stratigraphic and oxygen isotope evidence for My-scale glaciation driving eustasy in the Early-Middle Devonian greenhouse world. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 276, 170–181.View article

Gray, J.E. 1840. Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, 42th edition. 370 pp. British Museum, London.

Havlíček, V. & Kukal, Z. 1990. Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koněprusy area (Czechoslovakia). Sborník geologických věd, Paleontologie 31, 105–205.

Havlíček, V. & Mergl, M. 1988. Two new discinid genera (Brachiopoda) from the Silurian and Devonian of the Prague Basin, Czechoslovakia. Věstník Českého geologického ústavu 63, 169–172.

Havlíček, V. & Vaněk, J. 1996. Brachiopods and trilobites in the Chýnice Limestone (Emsian) at Bubovice (Čeřinka hillside; Prague Basin). Palaeontologica Bohemiae 2, 1–16.

Holmer, L.E. 1989. Middle Ordovician phosphatic inarticulate brachiopods from Vastergotland and Dalarna, Sweden. Fossils and Strata 26, 1–172.

Holmer, L.E., Popov, L.E., Streng, M. & Miller, J.F. 2005. Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian) lingulate brachiopods from the House and Fillmore formations, Ibex area, Western Utah, USA. Journal of Paleontology 79(5), 884–906.View article

Jeffreys, J.G. 1859. Gleanings in British conchology. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 3) 3, 30–43.

Jensen, P 1987. Differences in microhabitat, abundance and body size between oxybiotic and thiobiotic free-living marine nematodes. Oecologia 71, 564–567.View article

King, W. 1846. Remarks on certain genera belonging to the class Palliobranchiata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (series 1) 18, 26–42.View article

Klapper, G. 1977. Lower-Middle Devonian boundary conodont sequence in the Barrandian area of Czechoslovakia. Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii 22(4), 401–410.

Klapper, G., Ziegler, W. & Mashkova, T.V. 1978. Conodonts and correlation of Lower-Middle Devonian boundary beds in the Barrandian area of Czechoslovakia. Geologica et Palaeontologica 12, 103–116.

Koptíková, L. 2010. Precise position of the Basal Choteč event and evolution of sedimentary environments near the Lower–Middle Devonian boundary: The magnetic susceptibility, gamma-ray spectrometric, lithological, and geochemical record of the Prague Synform (Czech Republic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 304(1–2), 96–112.View article

Kuhn, O. 1949. Lehrbuch der Paläozoologie. 326 pp. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.

Kutorga, S.S. 1848. Ueber die Brachiopoden-familie der Siphonotretaceae. Russisch-Kaiserliche Mineralogische Gesellschaft zu St. Petersbourg, Verhandlungen 1847, 250–286.

Logan, A., MacKinnon, D.I. & Phorson, J.E. 1997. Morphology, distribution, life habits and phylogenetic affinities of the recent brachiopod Gwynia capsula (Jeffreys). Marine Ecology 18(3), 239–252.View article

Ludvigsen, R. 1974. A new Devonian acrotretid (Brachiopoda, Inarticulata) with unique protegular ultrastructure. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 3, 133–148.

Menke, C.T. 1828. Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum quae in Museo Menkeano adservantur. 91 pp. G. Uslar, Pyrmonti.

Mergl, M. 2001a. Lingulate brachiopods of the Silurian and Devonian of the Barrandian. Acta Musei nationalis Pragae, Series B – historia naturalis 57, 1–49.

Mergl, M. 2001b. Extinction of some lingulate brachiopod families: new stratigraphical data from Silurian and Devonian from Bohemia, 345–351. In Brunton, C.H.C., Cocks, L.R.M. & Long, S. Brachiopods past and present. Systematic Association Special Volume 63.

Mergl, M. 2002. Linguliformean and craniiformean brachiopods of the Ordovician (Třenice to Dobrotivá Formations) of the Barrandian, Bohemia. Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – historia naturalis 58, 1–82.

Mergl, M. 2003. Orbaspina chlupaci sp. nov., a new siphonotretid brachiopod from the Silurian of the Barrandian area, Bohemia. Bulletin of Geosciences 78(4), 419–421.

Mergl, M. 2006. A review of Silurian discinoid brachiopods from historical British localities. Bulletin of Geosciences 81(4), 215–236.View article

Mergl, M. 2008. Lingulate brachiopods from the Acanthopyge Limestone (Eifelian) of the Barrandian, Czech, Republic. Bulletin of Geosciences 83(3), 281–298.View article

Mergl, M. & Ferrová, L. 2009. Lingulate brachiopods from the Chýnice Limestone (upper Emsian, Barrandian; Czech Republic). Bulletin of Geosciences 84(3), 525–546.View article

Osborne, P.L. 2000. Tropical ecosystems and ecological concepts. 464 pp. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Pinet, P. 2009. Invitation to oceanography. 576 pp. Jones & Bartlett Learning, Burlington.

Popov, L.J. & Ushatinskaya, G.T. 1992. Lingulidy, proizkhozhdenie discinid, sistematika vysokikh taksonov, 59–67. In Repina, L.N. & Rozanov, A.Y. (eds) Drevneishiie brachiopody territorii Severnoi Evrazii. Obedinennyi institut geologii, geofyziki i mineralogii, SO RAN, Novosibirsk.

Popov, L.E., Nolvak, J. & Holmer, L.E. 1994. Late Ordovician lingulate brachiopods from Estonia. Palaeontology 37, 627–650.

Roemer, F.A. 1843. Die Versteinerungen des Harzgebirges. 40 pp. Hahn, Hannover.

Rowell, A.J. & Krause, F.F. 1973. Habitat diversity in the Acrotretacea (Brachiopoda, inarticulata). Journal of Paleontology 47, 791–800.

Ruedemann, R. 1935. Ecology of black mud shales of eastern New York. Journal of Paleontology 9(1), 79–91.

Schuchert, C. 1893. Classification of the Brachiopoda. American Geologist 11, 141–167.

Schuchert, C. 1911. Paleogeographic and geologic significance of recent brachiopods. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 22, 258–275.

Soetart, K., Muthumbi, A. & Heip, C. 2002. Size and shape of ocean margin nematodes: morphological diversity and depth-related patterns. Marine Ecology Progress Series 242, 179–193.View article

Swedmark, B. 1971. A review of Gastropoda, Brachiopoda, and Echinodermata. Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology 76, 41–45.

Svoboda, J. & Prantl, F. 1947. O stratigrafii a tektonice staršího paleozoika v okolí Třebotova. Sborník Státního geologického ústavu Československé republiky 15, 1–39.

Valentine, J. & Brock, G.A. 2003. A new siphonotretid brachiopod from the Silurian of Central-Western New South Wales, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 55(2), 231–244.View article

Valentine, J.L., Cole, D.J. & Simpson, A.J. 2006. Silurian linguliformean brachiopods and conodonts from the Cobra Formation, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 111, 199–234.

Valentine, J., Brock, G.A. & Molloy, P.D. 2003. Linguliformean brachiopod faunal turnover across the Irevikeven Event (Silurian) at Boree Creek, central-western New South Wales, Australia. Courier Forschungsinstitute Senckenberg 242, 301–327.

Vodrážková, S., Frýda, J., Suttner, T.J., Koptíková, L. & Tonarová, P. accepted for publication. Environmental changes close to the Lower-Middle Devonian boundary, the Basal Choteč Event in the Prague Basin (Czech Republic). Facies.

Waagen, W. 1885. Salt Range fossils I. Productus-Limestone fossils, Brachiopoda. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologica Indica (series 13) 4(5), 729–770.

Willard, B. 1928. The brachiopods of the Ottosee and Holston formations of Tennessee and Virginia. Bulletin of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology 68, 255–292.

Williams, H. & Lockley, M.G. 1983. Ordovician inarticulate brachiopods from graptolitic shales at Dob’s Linn, Scotland; their morphology and significance. Journal of Paleontology 57(2), 391–400.

Wittekindt, H. 1966. Zur Conodontenchronologie des Mitteldevons. Fortschritte in der Geologie von Rheinland und Westfalen 9, 621–646 [date of imprint 1965].

Zusková, J. 1991. Conodont faunas from the Lower/Middle Devonian section in Praha-Barrandov. Věstník Ústředního ústavu geologického 66(2), 107–112.