{"title":"Lower Tremadocian (Ordovician) lingulate brachiopods from the Central Andean Basin (NW Argentina) and their biogeographical links","authors":"","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1866","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":"49661426","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}
Carolin Haug, Ana Zippel, C. Hassenbach, T., Haug, JoaCHim
{"title":"A split-footed lacewing larva from about 100-million-year-old amber indicates a now extinct hunting strategy for neuropterans","authors":"Carolin Haug, Ana Zippel, C. Hassenbach, T., Haug, JoaCHim","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1861","url":null,"abstract":"In larvae of lacewings (Neuroptera), each mandible is conjoined with its corresponding maxilla (upper and lower jaws) forming a stylet. Stylets are specialized for piercing, liquefying and sucking the tissues of their prey. The shape, length and thickness of the stylets can differ immensely among larvae of different in-groups of Neuroptera. In addition, the stylets may possess a single tooth or multiple teeth of various sizes and positions, or may totally lack teeth. The larvae of split-footed lacewings (Nymphidae) are often characterized by a single tooth on each stylet and a relatively wide head capsule. The tooth in known larvae is arranged in the plane of movement of the stylet itself, as also often seen in other lacewing larvae. Here we describe and analyse a new type of fossil representatives of Nymphidae from about 100-million-year-old Kachin Myanmar amber. The new fossil type has a special morphology with prominent lateral processes on the head capsule and a single prominent tooth per stylet. The fossil type differs from all the other known larvae of Nymphidae by the arrangement of the tooth: it extends outside of the plane of movement of the stylets. Similar arrangements of teeth or spines outside of the plane of movement also occur in some raptorial appendages of other representatives of Euarthropoda, where they form a grasping basket. We discuss the implications of this unusual fossil type, concerning its functional morphology and ecology. •","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46681547","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 priapulid larva from the middle Cambrian (Wuliuan Stage) of North Greenland (Laurentia)","authors":"J. S. Peel","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1865","url":null,"abstract":"A single phosphatised specimen from the middle Cambrian Henson Gletscher Formation (Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage) of North Greenland is interpreted as the hatching larva of a totalgroup priapulid worm. A plated lorica is not present but probably was developed at a later larval stage, by comparison with the described development of extant Priapulus caudatus and Halicryptus spinulosus . A characteristic priapulid introvert with scalids is not seen but it was likely withdrawn in the available specimen. The new find is consistent with a similar ontogeny in Cambrian priapulid cycloneuralians to that seen in their present day relatives. New","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45915802","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 Ordovician and early Silurian trilobites from Tasmania","authors":"D. Holloway, M. R. Banks, D. M. Banks","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1868","url":null,"abstract":"Thirteen species of trilobites are described from two different faunas in late Katian and Rhuddanian strata respectively of the Arndell Sandstone in the Florentine Valley of southern Tasmania. The late Katian fauna includes the trinucleid Auritolithus corbetti gen. et sp. nov., the calymenids Salterocoryphe ? bailliei sp. nov. and Vietnamia hyron sp. nov., and limited material of the lichid Amphilichas ? and two indeterminate asaphids. Auritolithus , characterized by the markedly subpentagonal outline of the cephalon, cannot be assigned to any of the existing trinucleid subfamilies but seems closely related to forms occurring in the Upper Ordovician of the Precordillera Basin of Argentina. Salterocoryphe ? bailliei , the first record of a member of the Colpocoryphinae from Australia, is considerably younger stratigraphically than other occurrences of that genus in the middle to upper Darriwilian of France and the Iberian Peninsula. The Rhuddanian fauna from the Arndell Sandstone includes the illaenid Pepodes agrestis gen. et sp. nov., the scutelluid Japonoscutellum senectum sp. nov., the brachymetopid Niuchangella agastor sp. nov., the encrinurids Arndellaspis oryxis gen. et sp. nov. and Cromus ?, the calymenid Gravicalymene clarkei sp. nov. and the homalonotid Brongniartella calveri sp. nov. Niuchangella is accepted as a senior synonym of Radnoria . Arndellaspis is not closely related to other members of the Encrinurinae from Australia but shares unique derived characters of the pygidium with Encrinurus ( s.s. ) and Wallacia , occurring in Laurentia, Avalonia and Baltica, and Arndellaspis may share common ancestry with Encrinurus . The commonly broadly interpreted Gravicalymene is revised and restricted to a smaller number of closely related species from the Darriwilian to middle Telychian. The faunal affinities of the trilobites suggest links with terranes that lay along the north-western margin of Gondwana and with South America in the Late Ordovician, and with South China and possibly Laurentia in the early Silurian.","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42704564","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}
M. Ghobadi Pour, L. Popov, J. Álvaro, A. Amini, V. Hairapetian, H. Jahangir
{"title":"Ordovician of North Iran: New lithostratigraphy, palaeogeography and biogeographical links with South China and the Mediterranean peri-Gondwana margin","authors":"M. Ghobadi Pour, L. Popov, J. Álvaro, A. Amini, V. Hairapetian, H. Jahangir","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1830","url":null,"abstract":"t ains was established in 1934, when Bobek collected trilobites at AlamKuh (Fig. 1), which were subsequently identified by Dietrich (1937). They were only documented in more detail thirty years later, when Gansser & Huber (1962) introduced the fossiliferous Lashkarak Formation, named after its homonymous mountain. Davies et al. (1972) and Clark et al. (1975) also reported the presence of Ordovician fossiliferous strata in the Talesh Mountains, southwest of Rasht city (Fig. 1). Their Late Ordovician age was supported by a rich trilobite fauna subsequently described by Karim (2009). There was little progress in Ordovician studies for the next forty years. The information on the Ordovician and the stratigraphical ranges of the fossil content in the Alborz Mountains by Stöcklin & Setudehnia (1991), Hamedi et al. (1997) and Bruton et al. (2004) was im precise. Significant confusion arose after re-definition of","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44615958","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 Silurian (mid-Sheinwoodian) palynomorphs from the Loděnice-Špičatý vrch, Prague Basin, Czech Republic","authors":"J. Bek, P. Štorch, P. Tonarová, M. Libertín","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1831","url":null,"abstract":"Dispersed spores, cryptospores, scolecodonts, acritarchs, prasinophytes and chitinozoans, dated by graptolites as being middle Sheinwoodian (early Wenlock, ca 432 Ma), are described from the Loděnice-Špičatý vrch locality, Prague Basin, Czech Republic. Palynomorphs were macerated from a specimen (stored in the National Museum, Prague), with fragments of Cooksonia sp. and the zonal index graptolite Monograptus belophorus giving precise stratigraphic position within Monograptus belophorus Biozone. Important is the oldest occurrence of monolete spores. The number of spore taxa indicate that minimally six types of early vascular plants and probably two to three types of cryptosporophytes grew on the Svatý Jan V olcanic Island in the Prague Basin. The ecology of the first cryptospore and trilete spore producers within Sheinwoodian–Přídolí interval is discussed with special focus on first two globally important key events (after Homerian glaciation and during Přídolí) for earliest vascular land plants. The combination of palynological and palaeobotanical records confirms important role of volcanic islands of the Prague Basin for the evolution of early land plants.","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47445119","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}
Farzad Poursalehi, Gustavo, G., voldman, Ali Bahrami, M. J. Salas
{"title":"New data on conodonts and ostracods of the Katkoyeh Formation (Lower-Upper Ordovician) at the Banestan Section of East-Central Iran: biostratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance","authors":"Farzad Poursalehi, Gustavo, G., voldman, Ali Bahrami, M. J. Salas","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1847","url":null,"abstract":"Ordovician marine sedimentary sequences occur in several widely separated structural blocks in Iran, along the northern margin of Gondwana. In northern Kerman Province, the Ordovician sedimentary interval is known as the Katkoyeh Formation, which encompasses ~ 70–300 m of siliciclastic rocks with scarce carbonate and thick pyroclastic beds in its upper part. Previous studies provided several ages for the Katkoyeh Formation, puzzled by the limited number of palaeontological studies, mostly based on spot samples, the presence of regional important stratigraphic gaps, and the inherent structural complexity of the area. In order to adjust the depositional time of the Katkoyeh Formation, a systematic sampling for microfossils was conducted in the Banestan Section, located about 12 km northwest of the city of Zarand, in the vicinity of the Banestan village. Based on the occurrence of important biostratigraphic species, we recorded three conodont intervals in ascending order in the Katkoyeh Formation, namely the Rossodus manitouensis/ Paltodus deltifer Concurrent Range Zone (Tremadocian, Lower Ordovician), the Juanognathus variabilis Range Zone (Floian, Lower Ordovician), and the Icriodella superba Range Zone (Katian–?Hirnantian, Upper Ordovician). The conodont biostratigraphy is discussed and analysed, improving the Ordovician intrabasinal correlation of Iran as well as correlation with distant palaeobiogeographic domains. The Upper Ordovician conodont assemblage is accompanied by two new species of ostracods: Satiellina zarandensis sp. nov. and Ceratopsis persicus sp. nov., both suggesting palaeobiogeographical affinities mainly with Gondwana and peri-Gondwanan regions. •","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44759083","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}
L. Collantes, E. Mayoral, E. Liñán, R. Gozalo, S. Pereira
{"title":"The trilobite Serrodiscus Richter & Richter from Iberia, with systematic review of the genus and its international correlation through the Cambrian Series 2.","authors":"L. Collantes, E. Mayoral, E. Liñán, R. Gozalo, S. Pereira","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1852","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47172566","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}
J. Foster, S. Sroka, T. Howells, H. Cothren, C. Dehler, J. Hagadorn
{"title":"New Cambrian vermiform organisms from Burgess Shale-type deposits of the western United States","authors":"J. Foster, S. Sroka, T. Howells, H. Cothren, C. Dehler, J. Hagadorn","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1858","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47233145","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":"Middle Anisian (Bithynian to Illyrian?, Middle Triassic) Ammonoidea from Rüdersdorf (Brandenburg, Germany) with a revision of Beneckeia Mojsisovics, 1882 and notes on migratory pathways","authors":"F. Siegel, F. Wiese, K. Klug","doi":"10.3140/bull.geosci.1850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1850","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9332,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of Geosciences","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41972789","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}