New Mississippian trilobite association from the Brno vicinity and its significance (Moravian Karst, Czech Republic)
Abstract
Eleven trilobite species (<italic>Archegonus</italic> (<italic>Archegonus</italic>) <italic>aequalis philliboloides</italic> R. Hahn, 1967, <italic>Bollandia persephone</italic> (Hahn & Hahn, 1970), <italic>Bollandia</italic> cf. <italic>megaira</italic> (Hahn & Hahn, 1970), <italic>Liobole</italic> (<italic>Panibole</italic>) cf. <italic>jugovensis</italic> (Osmólska, 1968), <italic>Liobole</italic> (<italic>Sulcubole</italic>) <italic>glabroides</italic> (Richter & Richter, 1949), <italic>Semiproetus</italic> (<italic>Macrobole</italic>) <italic>drewerensis latipalpebratus</italic> (Osmólska, 1973), <italic>Proliobole vigilax</italic> (Chlupáč, 1961), <italic>Cyrtoproetus</italic> (<italic>Cyrtoproetus</italic>) <italic>cracoensis cracoensis</italic> (Reed, 1899), <italic>Carbonocoryphe</italic> (<italic>Carbonocoryphe</italic>) <italic>bindemanni</italic> Richter & Richter, 1950, <italic>Tawstockia</italic> (<italic>Beleckella</italic>) <italic>milleri</italic> (Hahn & Hahn, 1971), <italic>Cummingella</italic> (<italic>Cummingella</italic>) cf. <italic>auge</italic> Hahn & Hahn, 1968) are described for the first time from the shales of the Březina Formation in Mokrá Quarry near Brno (Bohemian Massif, Moravian Karst). This typical trilobite association — comparable to that previously described from the Erdbacher Kalken of Steeden in Hessen (Germany) — was found during excavation in the Mokrá Quarry but they do not come from the exact Tournaisian-Visean boundary. Stratigraphical correlation and comparison of material is mentioned below, as is the history of the trilobite research from the Moravian Karst.
- Publication:
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Geologica Carpathica
- Pub Date:
- June 2012
- DOI:
- 10.2478/v10096-012-0015-5
- Bibcode:
- 2012GCarp..63..181R
- Keywords:
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- Carboniferous;
- Moravian Karst;
- paleontology;
- biostratigraphy;
- trilobites