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Laboratory of Micropalaeontology & Chemostratigraphy

RNDr. Jana Drábková, head

 

Micropalaeontology and chemostratigraphy

Micropalaeontology and chemostratigraphy are core disciplines within modern academic and industrial geology, providing the prime basis for biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic dating of sedimentary rocks. In addition, analysis of microfossil assemblage data and geochemical composition provides a wide range of proxy data for palaeoecology, palaeoceanography and palaeoclimate change research.

Micropalaeontology and chemostratigraphy research group

The Group has a wide range of research programmes that focus on Palaeozoic and Mesozoic microfossils. Besides own scietific activities, a core staff of three micropalaeontologists offers services on a commercial consultancy basis (see pricelist of analyses). Palaeontological analyses of several fossil groups are performed routinely including the following microfossil groups: spores and pollen, organic-walled microfossils and conodonts.

Specialists cooperating with the laboratory within joint projects  

RNDr. Jiří Frýda, Dr.
  tel.: +420 251 085 347, email:jiri.frydageology.cz

RNDr. Štěpán Manda
  tel.: +420 257 089 532, email:stepan.mandageology.cz

RNDr. Zbyněk Šimůnek, CSc.
  tel.: +420 257 089 538, email: zbynek.simunekgeology.cz

RNDr. Marcela Stárková
  tel.: +420 257 089 540, email:marcela.starkovageology.cz

RNDr. Jiří Bek, CSc.
  tel.: +420 233 087 264, email:bekglicas.cz

RNDr. Stanislav Opluštil, CSc.
  tel.: +420 221 951 502, email:oplustilnatur.cuni.cz

RNDr. Josef Pšenička, Ph.D. .
  tel.: +420 377 237 604, email: jpsenickazcm.cz

Mgr. Jiřina Dašková
  tel.: +420 233 087 264, email:jirina.geoseznam.cz

Mgr. Milan Libertín
  tel.: +420 224 497 251, email:milan.libertinnm.cz

 

Recent research projects  

  • The medullosan pteridosperms and cordaites from the permocarboniferous of the Bohemian Massif  (A study of the cuticles and fertile organs)  (Z. Šimůnek Z. & J. Drábková; Projects ČGS-6171 and 205/05/2034 - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic)
  • Late Westphalian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of the Variscan foreland and adjacent intramontane basins. International Geological Correlation Programme -IGCP 469; head of the project  Chris Cleal  from National Museums et Galleries of Wales ( from the Czech Republic: S. Opluštil, J. Drábková, Z. Šimůnek, J. Bek, M. Librtín and J. Pšenička; Project ČGS - 3240)
  • Carboniferous fructifications and their spores from the Upper Silesian Basin (Namurian-Westphalian D) of the Czech Republic and Poland. (Bek J., Drábková J., Libertín M., Opluštil S. and J. Pšeniška ; Projects ČGS-6513 and IAA300130503 - Grant Agency of  the ASCR)     
  • Palaeoecological pattern of Coal Seams of the Lampertice Member, Jan Šverma Mine, Intra-Sudetic Basin (Langsettian) (Dašková J., Libertín M., Drábková J., Bek J., Pšenička J. and Šimůnek Z.  ; Projects ČGS-6511 and IAA3013306- Grant Agency of the ASCR.)
  • Peat-forming ecosystems of the Radnice Member (Westphalian) in the Late Paleozoic basins of central and western Bohemia. (S. Opluštil, J. Bek, J. Drábková, M. Libertín, J. Pšenička and Z. Šimůnek; Projects ČGS-6441 and 205/05/0105 - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic)
  • Early/Middle Devonian conodont biostratigraphy (S. Berkyová in co-operative research with R. Mawson & J.A. Talent, Macquarie Univerisity, Sydney, supported by PALSIP)
  • Silurian and Devonian chemostratigraphy (J. Frýda, S. Berkyová and Š. Manda; Projects ČGS-3312 and 206/04/0599 - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic)
  • Effect of the Basal Choteč Event on faunistic communities of the Prague Basin (S. Berkyová and J. Frýda; PALSIP and 206/04/0599 - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic)
  • Evolutionary changes of Paleozoic marine communities (J. Frýda, S. Berkyová and L. Zedník; project 206/04/0599 - Grant Agency of the Czech Republic)

Publications

Frýda, J. - Rohr, D. M. (2006, in press): Shell heterostrophy in Early Ordovician Macluritella Kirk, 1927, and its implications for phylogeny and classification of Macluritoidea (Gastropoda). - Journal of Paleontology, 80, 2: 264-271, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Frýda, J.  – Heidelberger, D.  – Blodgett, R. B. (2006, in press): Odontomariinae, a new Middle Paleozoic subfamily of slit-bearing euomphaloidean gastropods (Euomphalomorpha, Gastropoda). - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie,  Abhandlungen, xx-xx.

Lehnert, O. – Frýda, J. – Buggisch, W. – Munnecke, A. – Nützel, A. – Křiž, J. – Manda, Š.  (2006, in press): δ13C record across the Ludlow Lau Event: new data from mid palaeo-latitudes of northern peri-Gondwana (Prague Basin, Czech Republic). - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, x: xxx-xxx.

Berkyová, S. (2005): Tentaculitoidea from the Late Generation of fillings of the neptunian dyke in the Koněprusy Devonian – J. Czech. Geol. Soc. 49/3-4.

Frýda, J. - Farrell, J. R. (2005): Systematic position of two Early Devonian gastropods with sinistrally heterostrophic shells from the Garra Limestone, Larras Lee, New South Wales. – Alcheringa, 29, 229-240. ISSN 0311 5518.

Bouchet, P. – Rocroi, J. P. – Frýda, J. – Hausdorf, B. – Ponder, W. – Valdes, A. – Warén, A. (2005): Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. – Malacologia, 47, 1-2: 1-368.

Frýda, J. (2004): Gastropods, 378-388. In: Encyclopedia of Geology, R.C. Selley, L.R.M. Cocks, and I.R. Plimer (eds), Elsevier, 3200pp., ISBN 0-12-636380-3.

Drábková, J. – Bek, J.  – Opluštil, S. (2004): The first compression fossils of Spencerites (Scott) emend., and its isospores, from the Bolsovian (Pennsylvanian) of the Kladno-Rakovnik and Radnice basins, Czech Republic. - Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 130

(1-4): 59-88 Amsterdam.
Frýda, J. (2004): Two new gastropod genera (Porcellioidea, Archaeogastropoda) from the Lower Carboniferous of Belgium. - Journal ofthe Czech Geological Society, 49, 1-2: 57-61, Prague, ISSN 1210-8197.

Frýda, J. - Rohr, D. M. (2004): Gastropoda, 184-195. In: The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, B. D. Webby, F. Paris, M. L.

Droser, and I. G. Percival (eds), Columbia University Press, New York, 408pp., ISBN 0-231-12678-6.

Rohr, D. M. - Frýda, J. (2004): Ordovician symmetrical univalved molluscs (Tryblidiida and Bellerophontida), 179-183. In: The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, B. D. Webby, F. Paris, M. L. Droser, and I. G. Percival (eds), Columbia University Press, New York, 408pp., ISBN 0-231-12678-6.

Frýda, J. – Blodgett, R. B. (2004): New Emsian (late Early Devonian) gastropods from Limestone Mountain, Medfra B-4 quadrangle, west-central Alaska (Farewell terrane), and their paleobiogeographic affinities and evolutionary significance. - Journal of Paleontology, 78, 1: 111-132, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Kiel, S. – Frýda, J. (2004): Shell structure of Late Cretaceous Sensuitrochus ferreri (Cirridae, Gastropoda). - Journal of Paleontology, 78, 4: 795-797, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Bandel, K. – Frýda, J. (2004): Sasakiela, a new Early Carboniferous porcelliid genus (Porcellioidea, Gastropoda) with an unusual shell ontogeny. - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Mh., H. 3, 135-150, ISSN 0028-3630.

Blodgett, R. B. - Frýda, J. - Racheboeuf, P. R. (2003): Murchisonia gourvenneci, new name for Murchisonia oehlerti Blodgett, Frýda and Racheboeuf, 1999. - Geobios, 36, 2: 503. ISSN 0016-6995.

Blodgett, R. B. – Frýda, J. – Boucot A. J. (2003): New Silurian-Devonian pseudophorid gastropods. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 78, 4:359-367, ISSN 1214-1119.

Frýda, J. - Blodgett, R. B. – Stanley, G. D. (2003): New neritopsoidean gastropods (Neritimorpha) from Late Triassic (late Carnian-early Norian) of the Wallowa terrane, northeastern Oregon. - Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 87: 55-71.

Frýda, J. - Blodgett, R. B. (2003): Silberlingiella, a new purpurinid genus (Littorinoidea, Gastropoda) from the late middle Norian (Late Triassic) of the Clan Alpine Range, western Nevada. - Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 87: 47-53.

Nützel, A. – Frýda, J. (2003): Palaeozoic plankton revolution: Evidence from early gastropod ontogeny. – Geology, 31, 9: 829-831.

Lehnert, O. – Frýda, J. – Buggisch, W. – Manda, Š. (2003): A first report of the Ludlow Lau Event from the Prague Basin (Barrandian, Czech Republic). – Insugeo, Serie Correlación Geológica, 18:139-144, ISSN 1514-4186.

Frýda, J. – Heidelberger, D. (2003): Systematic position of Cyrtoneritimorpha within class Gastropoda with description of two new genera from Siluro-Devonian strata of Central Europe. – Bulletin of Geosciences, 78, 1:35-39.

Rohr, D. M. - Frýda, J. - Blodgett, R. B. (2003): Alaskadiscus, a new bellerophontoidean gastropod from the Upper Ordovician of the York and Farewell terranes of Alaska. – Short Notes on Alaska Geology, Professional Report 120: 95-99, Anchorage.

Rohr, D. M. - Blodgett, R. B. - Frýda, J. (2003): New Silurian murchisoniid gastropods from Alaska and a review of the genus Coelocaulus. – Short Notes on Alaska Geology, Professional Report 120: 87-93, Anchorage.

Frýda, J. - Hladil, J. - Vokurka, K. (2002): Seawater strontium isotope curve at the Silurian/Devonian boundary: a study of the global Silurian/Devonian boundary stratotype. – Geobios, 35:21-28.

Frýda, J. - Blodgett, R. B. - Lenz, A. C. (2002): New Early Devonian gastropods from the families Crassimarginatidae (new family) and Scoliostomatidae (new family), Royal Creek area, Yukon Territory, Canada. - Journal of Paleontology, 76, 2: 244-253, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Bek, J. – Opluštil, S – Drábková J. (2001): .Two species of Selaginella cones and their spores from the Bohemian Carboniferous continental basins of the Czech Republic.- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 114, 57-81. Amsterdam.

Blodgett, R. B. - Frýda, J. (2001): On the occurrence of Spinidelphinulopsis whaleni (Gastropoda) in the Late Triassic (early Norian) Cornwallis Limestone, Kuiu Island, southeastern Alaska (Alexander terrane) and its paleobiogeographic significance. - Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 76, 4, 235-242, Prague, ISSN 1210-3527.

Frýda, J. - Rohr, D. M. - Robardet, M. - Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. (2001): New microdomatid genus (Gastropoda) from Ashgill limestones of Seville (Ossa Morena Zone, Spain) with a revision of Ordovician Microdomatoidea. - Alcheringa, Webby Volume, 25: 117-127.

Blodgett, R. B. - Frýda, J. – Stanley, G. D. (2001): Delphinulopsidae, a new neritopsoidean gastropod family from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of Wallowa terrane, northeastern Oregon. - Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 46, 3-4: 307-318, Prague, ISSN 1210-8197.

Frýda, J. - Blodgett, R. B. (2001): Chulitnacula, a new paleobiogeographically distinctive gastropod genus from Upper Triassic strata of accreted terranes of southern Alaska. - Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 46, 3-4: 299-306, Prague, ISSN 1210-8197.

Rohr, D. M. - Frýda, J. (2001): A new Ordovician gastropod and operculum from the Czech Republic. - Journal of Paleontology, 75, 2: 461-462, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Blodgett, R. B. - Frýda, J. - Lenz, A. C. (2001): Semitubina yukonensis n. sp., first occurrence of this biogeographically distinctive Old World Realm gastropod genus in the Lower Devonian of the Western Hemisphere. - Journal of Paleontology, 75, 2: 466-470, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Frýda, J. - Blodgett, R. B. (2001): The oldest known heterobranch gastropod, Kuskokwimia gen. nov., from the Early Devonian of west-central Alaska, with notes on the early phylogeny of higher gastropods.- Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 76, 1, 39-53, Prague, ISSN 1210-3527.

Frýda, J. (2001): Discovery of a larval shell in Middle Paleozoic subulitoidean gastropods with description of two new species from the Early Devonian of Bohemia.- Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 76, 1, 29-37, Prague, ISSN 1210-3527.

Frýda, J. (2000): Some new Givetian (late Middle Devonian) gastropods from the Paffrath area (Bergisches Land, Germany). - Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 45, 2:359-374. Brisbane. ISSN 0079-8835.

Frýda, J. (1999): Shape convergence in gastropod shells: an example from the Early Devonian Plectonotus (Boucotonotus) - Palaeozygopleura Community of the Prague Basin (Bohemia). - Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 83: 179-190.

Blodgett, R. B. - Frýda, J. - Racheboeuf, P. R. (1999): Upper Middle Devonian (Givetian) gastropods from the Kersiadou Formation, Brittany, France. - Journal of Paleontology, 73, 6: 1081-1100, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Bandel, K. – Frýda, J. (1999): Notes on the evolution and higher classification of the subclass Neritimorpha (Gastropoda) with thedescription of some new taxa. - Geologica et Palaeontologica, 33: 219-235.

Frýda, J. (1999): Taxonomic position of suborder Jinonicellina. - Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 74, 1, 27-29, Prague, ISSN 1210-3527.

Frýda, J. (1999): Three new gastropod genera from the Early Devonian of Bohemia. - Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 74, 1, 31-38, Prague, ISSN 1210-3527.

Frýda, J. - Rohr, D. M. (1999): Taxonomy and Paleobiogeography of the Ordovician Clisospiridae and Onychochilidae (Mollusca). - Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Geologica, 43, 1-2:405-408, Prague, ISSN 0001-7132.

Frýda, J. (1999): Higher classification of the Paleozoic gastropods inferred from their early shell ontogeny. - Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 44: 137-153, Prague, ISSN 1210-8197.

Blodgett, R. B. - Frýda, J. (1999): New Devonian gastropod genera important for paleogeographic reconstructions. - Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 44: 293-308, Prague, ISSN 1210-8197.

Frýda, J. (1999): Secondary shell deposits in a new plectonotid gastropod genus (Bellerophontoidea, Mollusca) from the Early Devonian of Bohemia. - Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 44: 309-315, Prague, ISSN 1210-8197.

Frýda, J. (1999): Further new gastropods from the Early Devonian Boucotonotus - Palaeozygopleura Community of the Prague Basin. - Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 44: 317-325, Prague, ISSN 1210-8197.

Frýda, J. - Blodgett, R. B. (1998): Two new cirroidean genera (Vetigastropoda, Archaeogastropoda) from the Emsian (late Early Devonian) of Alaska with notes on the early phylogeny of Cirroidea. - Journal of Paleontology, 72 (2): 265-273, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Frýda, J. (1998): New Silurian and Devonian gastropod genera of Bohemia. - Earth Science, 52, 3:229-234, Japan, ISSN 0366-6611.

Bandel, K. - Frýda, J. (1998): Position of Euomphalidae in the system of the Gastropoda. - Senckenbergiana Lethaea, 78, 1/2: 103-131. Frankfurt, ISSN 0037-2110.

Frýda, J. (1998): Some new and better recognized Devonian gastropods from the Prague Basin (Bohemia). - Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 73, 1, 41-49, Prague, ISSN 1210-3527.

Frýda, J. (1998): Some new and better recognized Devonian gastropods from the Prague Basin (Bohemia): part II. - Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, 73, 4, 355-363, Prague, ISSN 1210-3527.

Zajíc, J. – Šimůnek, Z. – Drábková, J. (1997): The fossil fauna, mega- und microflora of the Krkonoše Piedmont Basin. Proceedings of the XIII International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian  - Part 1. In: Práce Panstw. Inst. Geol. – 157,  197-206. Krakow.

Šinmůnek, Z. – Drábková, J.  (1997): Palaeobotany and palynology of the Háje Horizon (Autunian) in the Krkonoše Piedmont Basin, Czech Republic. Proceedings of the 4th European Palaeobotanical and Palynological Conference. – Meded. Nederl. Inst. Toegepaste Geowet. TNO.-58, 53-63. Herleen.

Frýda, J. (1997): Oldest representatives of the superfamily Cirroidea (Vetigastropoda) with notes on their early phylogeny. - Journal of Paleontology, 71 (5): 839-847, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Frýda, J. - Manda, Š. (1997): A gastropod faunule from the Monograptus uniformis graptolite Biozone (Early Lochkovian, Early Devonian) in Bohemia. - Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 80: 59-122, ISSN 0072-1115.

Frýda, J. - Bandel, K. (1997): New Early Devonian gastropods from the Plectonotus (Boucotonotus) - Palaeozygopleura Community in the Prague Basin (Bohemia). - Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Paläontologischen Institut der Universität Hamburg, 80: 1-58, ISSN 0072-1115.

Frýda, J. - Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. (1996): An unusual new sinuitid mollusc (Bellerophontoidea, Gastropoda) from the Ordovician of Spain. - Journal of Paleontology, 70, 4, 598-605, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Bandel, K. - Frýda, J. (1996): Balbinipleura, a new slit bearing archaeogastropod (Vetigastropoda) from the Early Devonian of Bohemia and the Early Carboniferous of Belgium. - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Mh., H. 6, 325-344, ISSN 0028-3630.

Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. - Frýda, J. (1996): New evidence of gastropod affinities for some key bellerophontiform molluscs. - Geogaceta, 20 (1), 228-230, Spain.

Frýda, J. (1993): Oldest representative of the family Palaeozygopleuridae (Gastropoda) with notes on its higher taxonomy. - Journal of Paleontology, 67, 5, 822-827, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.

Frýda, J. (1992): Mode of life of a new onychochilid mollusc from the Lower Devonian of Bohemia. - Journal of Paleontology, 66, 2, 200-205, Lawrence, U.S.A., ISSN 0022-3360.
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Czech Geological Survey
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