“…Although, the material of studied tabulate corals is poor in terms of number of specimens, the biodiversity is quite high, even on the higher (generic and family) taxonomic levels. Such a phenomenon was also reported for the Famennian rugose corals, especially the colonial and dissepimented taxa [ 10 – 12 , 64 ].…”
Famennian tabulate corals were very rare worldwide, and their biodiversity was relatively low. Here we report a unique tabulate fauna from the mid- and late Famennian of the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Kowala and Ostrówka), Poland. We describe eight species (four of them new, namely ?Michelinia vinni sp. nov., Thamnoptychia mistiaeni sp. nov., Syringopora kowalensis sp. nov. and Syringopora hilarowiczi sp. nov.); the whole fauna consists of ten species (two others described in previous papers). These corals form two assemblages—the lower, mid-Famennian with Thamnoptychia and the upper, late Famennian with representatives of genera ?Michelinia, Favosites, Syringopora and ?Yavorskia. The Famennian tabulates from Kowala represent the richest Famennian assemblage appearing after the F/F crisis (these faunas appear some 10 Ma after the extinction event). Corals described here most probably inhabited deeper water settings, near the limit between euphotic and disphotic zones or slightly above. At generic level, these faunas show similarities to other Devonian and Carboniferous faunas, which might suggest their ancestry to at least several Carboniferous lineages. Tabulate faunas described here represent new recruits (the basin of the Holy Cross mountains was not a refuge during the F/F crisis) and have no direct evolutionary linkage to Frasnian faunas from Kowala. The colonization of the seafloor took place in two separate steps: first was monospecific assemblage of Thamnoptychia, and later came the diversified Favosites-Syringopora-Michelinia fauna.
“…Although, the material of studied tabulate corals is poor in terms of number of specimens, the biodiversity is quite high, even on the higher (generic and family) taxonomic levels. Such a phenomenon was also reported for the Famennian rugose corals, especially the colonial and dissepimented taxa [ 10 – 12 , 64 ].…”
Famennian tabulate corals were very rare worldwide, and their biodiversity was relatively low. Here we report a unique tabulate fauna from the mid- and late Famennian of the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Kowala and Ostrówka), Poland. We describe eight species (four of them new, namely ?Michelinia vinni sp. nov., Thamnoptychia mistiaeni sp. nov., Syringopora kowalensis sp. nov. and Syringopora hilarowiczi sp. nov.); the whole fauna consists of ten species (two others described in previous papers). These corals form two assemblages—the lower, mid-Famennian with Thamnoptychia and the upper, late Famennian with representatives of genera ?Michelinia, Favosites, Syringopora and ?Yavorskia. The Famennian tabulates from Kowala represent the richest Famennian assemblage appearing after the F/F crisis (these faunas appear some 10 Ma after the extinction event). Corals described here most probably inhabited deeper water settings, near the limit between euphotic and disphotic zones or slightly above. At generic level, these faunas show similarities to other Devonian and Carboniferous faunas, which might suggest their ancestry to at least several Carboniferous lineages. Tabulate faunas described here represent new recruits (the basin of the Holy Cross mountains was not a refuge during the F/F crisis) and have no direct evolutionary linkage to Frasnian faunas from Kowala. The colonization of the seafloor took place in two separate steps: first was monospecific assemblage of Thamnoptychia, and later came the diversified Favosites-Syringopora-Michelinia fauna.
“…The specimens were collected in 2009 and 2010 by IH in the Hazro area, southeastern Anatolia, during detailed stratigraphical fieldwork in the Paleozoic-Mesozoic local successions (Denayer and Hoş gör, 2014;Gourvennec and Hoş gör, 2012;Hoş gör and Kostak, 2012;Hoş gör and Stamberg, 2014;. The fossil remains are stored in the IPS (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont of Sabadell, Spain) collections and consist of two temnospondyl remains coming from two different stratigraphic levels of different estimated ages:…”
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Please cite this article in press as:Fortuny, J., et al., First occurrence of temnospondyls from the Permian and Triassic of Turkey: Paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographic implications. C. R. Palevol (2015), http://dx.Handled by Michel Laurin Keywords: Middle Permian Early Triassic Anatolia Branchiosauridae Stereospondyli Pangean migrations a b s t r a c tPermian and Triassic tetrapods are very rare in Turkey. Yet this group bears important paleoenvironmental and paleogeographical signals to better understand Pangean models, and especially the geodynamic history of the Permian and Triassic in Turkey, which remains highly debated. Here we present and describe the first temnospondyls from Turkey (SE Anatolia) which consist of a Middle Permian branchiosaurid and an Early Triassic stereospondyl. The branchiosaurid is the first representative of its group in Gondwana and the first from the Middle Permian: it therefore brings important paleogeographic implications and supports the hypothesis that anamniotic tetrapods may have used trans-Pangean migration routes between Europe and Gondwana. It also brings new data to the debated depositional environment of the Permian of SE Anatolia. The Triassic stereospondyl represents one of the few tetrapods known from paleoequatorial areas and confirms a relatively rapid faunal turnover of the anamniotic fauna after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.
“…Thus, during the Late Devonian, it was part of a huge platform that was positioned within the southern hemisphere tropical carbonate development zone (Brock and Yazdi, 2000). Figure 19.Late Devonian paleogeographic reconstruction of the Paleotethys ocean and its surrounding continents, including the position of the South Armenian Block along the northern margin of the Gondwana megacontinent (redrawn and modified after Denayer and Hoşgör, 2014, based on the maps of Stampfli et al, 2002). …”
The lower Famennian ‘Cyrtospirifer’ orbelianus brachiopod Zone established in Armenia by Abrahamyan (1957) (coeval to the crepida conodont Zone) contains an abundant and diverse brachiopod fauna that still remains poorly studied. In an effort to revise and update its systematic classification and to assess the brachiopod diversity in this area after the Kellwasser extinction event at the end of the Frasnian, our attention is here focused on rhynchonellides and athyrides. Six rhynchonellide species are described belonging to five genera as well as a single athyride species (Crinisarina pseudoglobularis n. sp.), which is new to science. The genus Crinisarina is reported for the first time in the South Armenian Block (SAB), which was then part of the northern margin of Gondwana. Some of the rhynchonellides identified were previously recognized in this area, but they require modern documentation and taxonomic reassessment. More particularly, it is the first time that the internal structure of Sartenaerus baitalensis (Reed, 1922) is illustrated, taking into account that it is the type species of a biostratigraphically significant Famennian genus. One of the oldest punctate rhynchonellide species, Greira transcaucasica Erlanger, 1993, is described for the first time from Armenia and its intraspecific morphological variability is documented quantitatively. From a paleobiogeographic viewpoint, the studied brachiopod fauna clearly shares affinities with contemporaneous ones from other regions of the Gondwanan northern margin that extend eastwards of the SAB to Afghanistan and Pamir, although there are also some endemic elements.
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