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Organisms Attached to Conulariid Thecae from the Upper Ordovician of the Barrandian Area (Czech Republic) Cover

Organisms Attached to Conulariid Thecae from the Upper Ordovician of the Barrandian Area (Czech Republic)

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|May 2024

Abstract

In the middle Sandbian and lower Katian (Upper Ordovician) rocks of the Barrandian area, the fossil remains of conulariids are relatively abundant. Their thecae were sometimes used as solid surfaces for the attachment of epizoans, mostly craniid brachiopods of the genus Petrocrania, more rarely also echinoderms Hemicystites and Agelacrinites, and bryozoans Ceramopora and Spatiopora. The orientation of shells of Petrocrania suggests that conulariids (mostly belonging to the genus Archaeconularia) were dead at the time of the brachiopod attachment, their thecae were partly fragmentary and secondarily replaced. A find of Pseudoconularia grandissima attached to the theca of the cystoid Codiacystis is also reported.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fbgp-2023-0003 | Journal eISSN: 1805-286X | Journal ISSN: 1805-2371
Language: English
Page range: 43 - 50
Published on: May 19, 2024
Published by: West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2024 Jaroslav Marek, Radko Šarič, Petr Kácha, published by West Bohemian Museum in Pilsen
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