{"title":"UPPER SPATHIAN TO BITHYNIAN (LOWER TO MIDDLE TRIASSIC) BRACHIOPODS FROM NORTH DOBROGEA (ROMANIA)","authors":"E. Grădinaru, M. Gaetani","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/11182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/11182","url":null,"abstract":"Brachiopods obtained from several Triassic localities in North Dobrogea, in Romania, are described. Upper Spathian and Aegean Hallstatt-type red limestones have been sampled in the Desli Caira section, proposed as the GSSP for the base of the Anisian. The Bithynian brachiopods mostly originate from the Tubiphytes -microbial buildup in the Mahmudia quarry, and also from the Hallstatt-type limestones of Agighiol and Orta Bair. Their age estimates are supported by ammonoids collected from the same beds. The upper Spathian and Aegean assemblages of Desli Caira consist of four rhynchonellids, with one genus and two species newly described, Ortarhynchia petersi gen. n. sp. n. and Austriellula iordanae sp. n. The Bithynian assemblages comprise the most diverse fauna, with 15 species, four species of which are newly described, Ortarhynchia petersi gen. n. sp. n., Piarorhynchella kittli sp. n., Ptychomentzelia dobrogeana sp. n. and P. simionescui sp. n. In the Tubiphytes facies of Mahmudia, the assemblage is numerically dominated by mentzeliids and dielasmatids, forming 84.8 % of the whole assemblage. Spiriferinids and rhynchonellids form the minor component. Instead, rhynchonellids prevail in the Hallstatt facies at Agighiol and Orta Bair. The assemblages described here are hardly comparable with those of the western Tethys. The Bithynian assemblage is very different from its equivalent described from the substage stratotype in Turkey. In North Dobrogea, the carbonate substrate and clear and agitated water supported an assemblage with high diversity. In contrast, in Bithynia, the brachiopod community dwelled on a softer and muddier substrate, with higher density and lower diversity. The locality of Aghdarband (Iran) also delivered Bithynian brachiopods, forming another different assemblage. The recovery and radiation of brachiopods after the P/T crisis is discussed in the framework of Palaeo-Tethyan palaeogeography, making comparisons with the South China localities.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ON THE VALIDITY OF TEREBRATULA SINUOSA (BROCCHI)","authors":"E. Ruggiero, C. Serio, P. Raia","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/12163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/12163","url":null,"abstract":"Here we aim to fix some nomenclatural problems relating to the definition of Terebratula sinuosa. In 1616 Fabio Colonna first described two different brachiopod specimens from Italy which were later attributed to the genus Terebratula. In 1758 Linnaeus erected Anomia terebratula in reference to the drawings of Colonna. He described the heavily sulciplicate specimen figured on the upper left (specimen number 4) but addressed the specimen as if it was the number 1 in the figure (upper right). Several authors later inadvertently followed the error of Linnaeus. The neotype for T. terebratula, indicated in 1998 by Lee & Brunton, refers to the specimen number 1 in Colonna’s figure (the one to the upper right). The two specimens in Colonna were originally considered synonyms. However, the sulciplicate specimen number 4, originally figured by Colonna, refers to a distinctive Miocene Terebratula species, which has been often referred to as Terebratula sinuosa. We review evidence in favour of such a designation and provide stratigraphic and morphological evidence that T. sinuosa deserves the full rank of species. The name T. sinuosa should be maintained given the long tradition of the name in the literature, and the definition of T. terebratula should therefore be amended.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EARLY TITHONIAN DEEP-WATER COLONIZATION BY BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA IN THE MAGURA BASIN (PIENINY KLIPPEN BELT, WESTERN CARPATHIANS): A CLUE TO THE ORIGINS OF DEEP-WATER FORAMINIFERA.","authors":"Š. Józsa","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/11675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/11675","url":null,"abstract":"Deep-water benthic foraminifera were reported from lower Tithonian abyssal deposits lying above a barren interval of radiolarites in the Magura Basin (Western Carpathians). The analysis of morphogroups shows that the assemblage is represented by increased globular chambered morphogroups of both agglutinated and calcareous benthic foraminifera and planoconvex calcareous benthic foraminifera. The composition of the benthic foraminiferal assemblage points to a stressed setting particularly occurring in environments with increased organic flux and depleted oxygen in bottom and pore waters, as indicated by the scarcity of strictly epifaunal agglutinated foraminifera and the absence of strictly epifaunal calcareous benthic foraminifera. The assemblage is compared with Oxfordian – Tithonian assemblages reported from deep-water facies and shelf assemblages from the Boreal, Tethys and Atlantic realms.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Basso, G. Coletti, V. Bracchi, M. Yazdi-Moghadam
{"title":"LOWER OLIGOCENE CORALLINE ALGAE OF THE UROMIEH SECTION (QOM FORMATION, NW IRAN) AND THE OLDEST RECORD OF TITANODERMA PUSTULATUM (CORALLINOPHYCIDAE, RHODOPHYTA)","authors":"D. Basso, G. Coletti, V. Bracchi, M. Yazdi-Moghadam","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/11382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/11382","url":null,"abstract":"The Rupelian Uromieh section of the Qom Formation was analyzed with the aim to provide a first description of its coralline algal assemblages, and benthic paleoenvironmental evolution through time. The presence of Nummulites fichteli , Nummulites vascus , Halkyardia maxima and Subterraniphyllum thomasii , together with the absence of Nephrolepidina and Eulepidina confirm an early to middle Rupelian age. In the lower part of the section, the abundance of miliolids and corals suggests a proximal inner-platform environment, while upsection the increase in large rotaliids, coralline algae and bryozoans points toward a distal inner-platform/proximal middle-platform setting. Coralline algal assemblages support this interpretation, with Sporolithales and Hapalidiales becoming more common in the upper part of the section. Within the coralline assemblage, Lithoporella melobesioides and Titanoderma pustulatum are two of the most common species, together with articulated coralline algae. S. thomasii is more common in coral-rich intervals, confirming that the distribution of this species was confined to shallow-water environments. The specimens of T. pustulatum recovered in the Uromieh section predate all the other known records of this species, indicating that the origin of T. pustulatum should be dated at least at the early Rupelian","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"37 1","pages":"197-218"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PREDATORS AND PREYS: A CASE HISTORY FOR SAURICHTHYS (COSTASAURICHTHYS) COSTASQUAMOSUS RIEPPEL, 1985 FROM THE LADINIAN OF LOMBARDY (ITALY)","authors":"A. Tintori","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/11442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/11442","url":null,"abstract":"A large specimen of Saurichthys (Costasaurichthys) costasquamosus from the lower Ladinian of the Northern Grigna mountain is described. It is an incomplete specimen, lacking the caudal region, and showing gut content. This latter consists of totally scattered remains of at least two specimens of adult Ctenognathichthys bellottii , a medium size fish quite common in this fossil assemblage. Saurichthys has been always considered an active predator on small fishes, but it cannot be the case for this specimen, with remains in the gut are totally disarticulated and evenly scattered all along the abdomen. Scavenging on floating carcasses is proposed, the hypothesis being also supported by the common preservation of Ctenognathichthys as incomplete individuals. Although the Saurichthys specimen shows some ‘in situ’ disarticulation, caudal region elements are totally missing on the slab yielding the anterior part of the fish. As for other large Saurichthys specimens from the same site, it is supposed that this is the result of a predation by a much larger marine organism, possibly an ichthyosaur.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A COELACANTH FISH FROM THE ANISIAN (MIDDLE TRIASSIC) OF THE DOLOMITES","authors":"S. Renesto, E. Kustatscher","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/11552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/11552","url":null,"abstract":"An incomplete coelacanthiform specimen is described from the Dont Formation (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Kuhwiesenkopf/Monte Pra della Vacca in the Northern Dolomites (NE Italy). Even if the incompleteness of the specimen does not allow a reliable taxonomic assignment at generic level, it increases our understanding of Middle Triassic coelacanthiform diversity in the western Tethys.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"426 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DOLOMITE FORMATION BY NANOCRYSTAL AGGREGATION IN THE DOLOMIA PRINCIPALE OF THE BRENTA DOLOMITES (NORTHERN ITALY)","authors":"P. Meister, S. Frisia","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/11297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/11297","url":null,"abstract":"Upper intra- to supratidal laminites in the Norian Dolomia Principale of the Brenta Dolomites (Northern Italy) commonly consist of aphanitic and partially peloidal dolomite previously interpreted as very early diagenetic or penecontemporaneous. Re-examination of a sample prepared by focused ion beam milling through high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that dolomicrite crystals may consist of ca. 5-nm-sized nanocrystals characterized by imperfectly aligned orientation. A similar type of dolomite was found in clay-rich Carnian laminites of the Travenanzes Formation (Venetian Alps, Northern Italy) and was interpreted as indication of primary precipitation. The observation of nanocrystals in both the Dolomia Principale and the Travenanzes Formation allows hypothesizing that dolomite mud formed directly from solution via a non-classical pathway involving nucleation and aggregation of nano-particles. Domains of nanocrystalline dolomite in the Dolomia Principale are embedded within, or cemented by, calcian dolomite showing coherent lattice at the micrometre scale and a modulated structure under the TEM. This new finding provides the first evidence that one of the largest dolomite bodies occurring in the geological record, the Dolomia Principale, commenced with deposition of sediment, consisting of dolomite mud formed from solution via non-classical crystallization, and was partially affected by later pervasive diagenetic dolomitization. Based on these new observations we propose that further nano-scale studies are necessary to substantiate the hypothesis that the formation of large dolomite bodies characterized by abundant dolomicrite may have commenced by non-classical nucleation and growth processes. This approach may provide insight on non-actualistic conditions in ancient environments that may have differed, in their boundary conditions, from their modern analogues.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NEW DATA ON THE LATE MIOCENE BRACHIOPOD FAUNA OF TETTI BORELLI (PIEDMONT, N ITALY)","authors":"A. Dulai","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/11228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/11228","url":null,"abstract":"After a small brachiopod fauna was published in 2010 from the Tortonian Sant’Agata Fossili Formation of Tetti Borelli (N Italy), two new and more numerous brachiopod collections turned up from this locality. The Roest Collection in the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden, the Netherlands), and the Pavia-Giuntelli Collection in the Department of Earth Sciences of Torino University (Torino, Italy) contain 199 and 131 specimens, respectively. Based on the study of these collections, the Tetti Borelli brachiopod fauna is now much better known and more diverse. Additionally to the previously described six species (Cryptopora lovisati, Eucalathis aff. tauriniensis, Megathiris detruncata, Joania aff. falunica, Megerlia truncata, Lacazella mediterranea), another four taxa have been found (Lingula sp., Terebratulina retusa, Joania cordata, Argyrotheca sp.), and a new Megathyrididae genus and species (Borellithyris gaetanii n. gen. n. sp.) has been discovered. Another new species (Eucalathis giulioi n. sp.) is introduced on the basis of a dorsal valve of the Roest Collection and a previously illustrated ventral valve from the Janssen Collection. This is the sixth known fossil Eucalathis species, most of which are described on the basis of a few specimens. The Tetti Borelli brachiopods are mostly resedimented with different degree of transport, but the minute rhynchonellide Cryptopora seems to be more or less autochthonous.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Parent, A. Garrido, A. Scherzinger, G. Schweigert, L. Brambilla
{"title":"AMMONITES OF THE SUBFAMILY ZAPALIINAE FROM THE LOWER TITHONIAN OF ESTANCIA MARÍA JUANA, VACA MUERTA FORMATION (PORTADA COVUNCO MEMBER), NEUQUÉN BASIN, ARGENTINA","authors":"H. Parent, A. Garrido, A. Scherzinger, G. Schweigert, L. Brambilla","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/11788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/11788","url":null,"abstract":"A new collection of ammonites from the Picunleufuense Zone (standard base of the Andean Tithonian) of the locality Estancia Maria Juana (southern Neuquen Basin, Argentina) has provided abundant and well preserved material of new transients of Indansites picunleufuense and Choicensisphinctes platyconus. These transients are described and a detailed review of the early evolution of the Indansites lineage is presented. The meaning of changes in rib density, variations within the microconchs (males) and the length of the bodychamber in Indansites picunleufuense are discussed. It is concluded that the changes in rib density which characterize the successive macroconchs of the transients indicate changes in the rate of shell-growth. The more densely ribbed phragmocone of later transients would have had lower growth rates, which would also explain their smaller adult size. The microconchs show high variation in adult size suggesting high plasticity in the size-age maturation, most likely caused by influence of seasonal environmental conditions. A large small-macroconch-like lapetted microconch, coming from the close locality Picun Leufu, is interpreted as a new case of sex-change.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A MIXED PERMIAN–TRIASSIC BOUNDARY BRACHIOPOD FAUNA FROM GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SOUTH CHINA","authors":"Huiting Wu, Yang Zhang, Yuan-lin Sun","doi":"10.13130/2039-4942/12162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/12162","url":null,"abstract":"Although many studies have been concerned with Changhsingian brachiopod faunas in South China, brachiopod faunas of the mixed nearshore clastic–carbonate facies have not been studied in detail. In this paper, a brachiopod fauna collected from the Changhsingian Wangjiazhai Formation and the Griesbachian Yelang Formation at the Liuzhi section (Guizhou Province, South China) is described. The Liuzhi section represents mixed clastic–carbonate facies and yields 30 species of 16 genera of brachiopod. Among the described and illustrated species, new morphological features of genera Peltichia , Prelissorhynchia and Spiriferellina are provided. Because of limited materials, four undetermined species instead of new species from these three genera are proposed. The Liuzhi brachiopod fauna from lower part of the Wangjiazhai Formation shares most genera with fauna of carbonate facies in South China, and the fauna from the upper part is similar to that from the Zhongzhai and Zhongying sections, representative shallow-water clastic facies sections in Guizhou Province. Consistent with the lithological feature of the Wangjiazhai Formation at the Liuzhi section, the Liuzhi brachiopod fauna shows similar changing pattern with fauna from sections of shallow-water clastic and carbonate facies, and all present a sudden decline of diversity prior to the Permian–Triassic boundary.","PeriodicalId":54451,"journal":{"name":"Rivista Italiana Di Paleontologia E Stratigrafia","volume":"125 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66212828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}