New Mississippian trilobite association from the Brno vicinity

• Authors: RAK Štěpán; KALVODA Jiří; DEVUYST Francois Xavier
• Year of publication: 2012
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Geologica Carpathica
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: http://www.geologicacarpathica.sk/src/main.php
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10096-012-0015-5
• Field: Geology and mineralogy
• Keywords: Carboniferous Moravian Karst paleontology biostratigraphy trilobites
• Description: Eleven trilobite species (Archegonus (Archegonus) aequalis philliboloides R. Hahn, 1967, Bollandia persephone (Hahn & Hahn, 1970), Bollandia cf. megaira (Hahn & Hahn, 1970), Liobole (Panibole) cf. jugovensis (Osmólska, 1968), Liobole (Sulcubole) glabroides (Richter & Richter, 1949), Semiproetus (Macrobole) drewerensis latipalpebratus (Osmólska, 1973), Proliobole vigilax (Chlupáč, 1961), Cyrtoproetus (Cyrtoproetus) cracoensis cracoensis (Reed, 1899), Carbonocoryphe (Carbonocoryphe) bindemanni Richter & Richter, 1950, Tawstockia (Beleckella) milleri (Hahn & Hahn, 1971), Cummingella (Cummingella) cf. auge 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.

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