J. Klembara, R. Werneburg, M. Mikudíková, J. Šurka, S. Štamberg
{"title":"The oldest records of the stem amniote Discosauriscus (Seymouriamorpha, Discosauriscidae) from the European Carboniferous-Permian boundary","authors":"J. Klembara, R. Werneburg, M. Mikudíková, J. Šurka, S. Štamberg","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1882","url":null,"abstract":"The skeletal remains of early tetrapod Discosauriscus (Seymouriamorpha) are known from the lower Permian deposits of the Central and Western Europe. We describe here two specimens of Discosauriscus : one from the Czech Republic ( D. pulcherrimus ) and the second from Germany ( D. cf. pulcherrimus ). Discosauriscus pulcherrimus is represented by the complete skull and partial anterior postcranial skeleton, and represents the oldest record of this species from the Czech Republic. To identify the diagnostic characters of D. pulcherrimus , we used the high-resolution X-ray microcomputed tomography. This enabled us to identify all three characters typical for this species, in contrast to the morphology of the contemporaneous D. austriacus . The discosauriscid from Germany, known on the basis of the postcranial skeleton ( Discosauriscus cf. pulcherrimus ), represents the first record of the genus Discosauriscus from the Upper Carboniferous. •","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":"65 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139307398","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":"Late Eocene (Priabonian) coleoid cephalopods from the Mandrykivka Beds of the city of Dnipro, Ukraine","authors":"V. Dernov, V. Demianov","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1884","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139306989","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":"Mid-Silurian odontopleurid trilobites from Roquemaillère, Montagne Noire, Southern France","authors":"R. Feist, E.N.K. Clarkson","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1885","url":null,"abstract":"The Roquemaillère site on the southeastern margin of the French Massif Central is one of the rare localities along the Northern Gondwana margin from which Silurian odontopleurid trilobites have been recovered. Revision of M.-C. Chaubet’s collections from this site, presented in her monograph (1937), together with additional new records revealed the presence of Kettneraspis Prantl & Přibyl, 1949 with 5 species [ K . acanthifrons sp. nov., K . cf. juengeri Santel, 2001, K. rojanensis sp. nov., K . anteflexa sp. nov., K . aff. parkini (Siveter, 1989)], Eoleonaspis Sheng, 1974 with E. maeander sp. nov., Radiaspis Richter & Richter, 1917 with Radiaspis sp., Laethoprusia Ramsköld, 1991 with L. augur sp. nov., and Ceratocephalina Whittington, 1956 with C. angustifurcata sp. nov. Evidence from associated graptolites, brachiopods, bivalves and conodonts assigns the trilobites to the late Wenlock Homerian stage. The diverse fauna is dominated, both in specific diversity and number of individuals by Kettneraspis . The absence of the closely related Leonaspis regarded as characterising Gondwana-related terranes from the late Silurian onwards, confirms the pre-Ludlow age of the Roquemaillère fauna.","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139309544","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":"Lingulate brachiopods from the Vinařice Limestone (Devonian, Pragian) of the Barrandian area, Czechia","authors":"M. Mergl, N. Šmídtová","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1880","url":null,"abstract":"The Vinařice Limestone (Praha Formation; Central Bohemia) of Pragian age contains a moderate diverse lingulate brachiopod fauna including a new species of discinid, Acrosaccus robustus sp. nov., associated with several other poorly preserved discinids including the trematid Schizocrania , one species of the biernatid Havlicekion and fragments of an obolid. Lingulate brachiopods are associated with diverse rhynchonelliformean brachiopods mainly strophomenoids and rhynchonelloids. Brachiopods, trilobites and other fauna confirm the presence of a shallow, rough-water environment that existed before the origin of the coral-stromatoporoid-algal Koněprusy reef in the area. The lingulate brachiopod assemblage described herein differs from the local Emsian (Suchomasty Limestone) and Eifelian (Acanthopyge Limestones) lingulate brachiopod assemblages by absence of the discinid Chynithele. Presence of Schizocrania sp. indicates derivation of the fauna from the Lochkovian brachiopod assemblage. An Oichnus - type drilling trace in the brephic shell is documented in the discinid Praeohlertella ? sp. •","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139306275","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}
Y.-D. Li, T. K. Philips, Diying Huang, Chen-yang Cai
{"title":"Earliest fossil record of Eucradinae in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ptinidae)","authors":"Y.-D. Li, T. K. Philips, Diying Huang, Chen-yang Cai","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1876","url":null,"abstract":"Ptinidae is currently a diverse family of beetles with a sparse Mesozoic fossil record. Here a new ptinid fossil, Granulobium whitei Li, Philips & Cai gen. et sp. nov., is reported from midCretaceous Burmese amber, which represents the earliest record of the extant subfamily Eucradinae. Granulobium can be recognized within Eucradinae by its coarsely granulated pronotum with no carinae or ridges, narrowly separated procoxae, irregularly punctate elytra, and relatively short abdominal ventrite 4. Our discovery indicates that Mesozoic Ptinidae were more biodiverse than previously appreciated.","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45798446","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":"The trilobites Mitroplax gen. nov. and Spiniscutellum (Scutelluidae) from the Lower Devonian of Victoria, Australia","authors":"D. Holloway","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1879","url":null,"abstract":"The new scutelluid trilobite genus Mitroplax , with type species M. enormis (Etheridge, 1894), occurs in Pragian to early Emsian strata at several localities in Victoria, Australia. The genus is characterized by a remarkably long and flat anterior cephalic border, a glabella that expands almost uniformly forward from the occipital furrow, a subcircular S2 discrete from S1, and a pygidium with the well-rounded paired pleural ribs and the posterior bifurcations of the postaxial rib tapering almost to a point distally. The type species grew to exceptional size, as indicated by the dimensions of the largest pygidia. Another scutelluid from the Lochkovian of Victoria, ‘ Goldius ’ greenii Chapman, 1914, is revised and assigned to Spiniscutellum Šnajdr, 1960. This species and a related one from the Lochkovian of the Bungonia district of south-eastern New South Wales are the first records of Spiniscutellum from eastern Gondwana. Spiniscutellum ( Lochkovopeltis ) Hörbinger, 2004 is regarded as a junior synonym of Spiniscutellum . •","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47736013","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}
Y.-D. Li, M. Volkovitsh, H-T. Song, Diying Huang, Chen-yang Cai
{"title":"Dictyorachys gen. nov., an enigmatic genus of jewel beetles from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Buprestidae)","authors":"Y.-D. Li, M. Volkovitsh, H-T. Song, Diying Huang, Chen-yang Cai","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1875","url":null,"abstract":"The midCretaceous Burmese amber has yielded a wide diversity of polyphagan beetles, but the fossil record of Buprestidae is comparatively sparse. Cretaceous buprestids in amber with exquisite morphological details are invaluable for understanding character evolution and the origin and diversification of extant subfamilies. Here we report an enigmatic jewel beetle, Dictyorachys callidictyus Li, Volkovitsh & Cai gen. et sp. nov., based on a well preserved specimen entombed in midCretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. The unusual character combination of Dictyorachys is not consistent with any of the known buprestid subfamilies, which is therefore tentatively classified as Buprestidae incertae sedis . • Key","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46102347","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}
A. L. S. A. -. eSqueirA, A. N. M. O. -. edmAr, Ernesto P Uruchurtu 580, Hermosillo, Sonora, H. Löser, J. Moreno-Bedmar
{"title":"Middle Albian corals from the Espinazo del Diablo Formation (Lampazos area, Sonora, Mexico)","authors":"A. L. S. A. -. eSqueirA, A. N. M. O. -. edmAr, Ernesto P Uruchurtu 580, Hermosillo, Sonora, H. Löser, J. Moreno-Bedmar","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1872","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we describe a coral fauna from limestones of the Middle Albian, in the Espinazo del Diablo Formation, at a distance of 10 km to the southeast of Tepache town, which is in the Lampazos area of Mexico. The corals did not form bioconstructions. A total of 46 species assigned to 22 genera that belong to the superfamilies Actinastraeoidea, Cladocoroidea, Cyclolitoidea, Eugyroidea, Heterocoenioidea, Misistelloidea, Stylinoidea, and Thamnasterioidea are reported. One genus and three species are described as new. The new genus Pentacoeniopsis belongs to the family Solenocoeniidae. The generic composition shows that the fauna is dominated by Early Cretaceous corals, and almost all species were indicated in the Early Aptian and Early Albian. Four genera have a range beyond the Santonian. Due to the relatively high number of endemic taxa, the coral fauna of the Lampazos area shows a low number of species that are shared with other studied areas, and coral fauna of the Bisbee Basin are the nearest with only 15 shared taxa. •","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46952225","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":"Graptolite biostratigraphy and biodiversity dynamics in the Silurian System of the Prague Synform (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)","authors":"P. Štorch","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1862","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43660475","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":"Closing a major gap in mantis shrimp evolution - first fossils of Stomatopoda from the Triassic","authors":"","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1864","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46905833","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}