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Content-Based Recommender Systems Taxonomy

Papadakis Harris, Papagrigoriou Antonis, Kosmas Eleftherios, Panagiotakis Costas, Markaki Smaragda, Fragopoulou Paraskevi

Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

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2023

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Vol. 48, No. 2

211--241

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In the era of internet access, recommender systems try to alleviate the difficulty consumers face while trying to find items (e.g. services, products, or information) that better match their needs. To do so, a recommender system selects and proposes (possibly unknown) items that may be of interest to some candidate consumer, by predicting her/his preference for this item. Given the diversity of needs between consumers and the enormous variety of items to be recommended, a large set of approaches have been proposed by the research community. This paper provides a review of the approaches proposed in the entire research area of content-based recommender systems, and not only in one part of it. To facilitate understanding, we provide a categorization of each approach based on the tools and techniques employed, which results to the main contribution of this paper, a content-based recommender systems taxonomy. This way, the reader acquires a quick and complete understanding of this research area. Finally, we provide a comparison of content-based recommender systems according to their ability to efficiently handle well-known drawbacks.

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Technologie jądrowe w planach inwestycyjnych przedsiębiorstw ciepłowniczych – podsumowanie badania ankietowego dla Narodowego Centrum Badań Jądrowych

Dekarz Dariusz

Energetyka

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2023

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nr 2

96--100

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Przeprowadzone w 2021 r. przez „Energopomiar” Sp. z o.o. wśród elektrociepłowni zawodowych i przemysłowych oraz ciepłowni badanie ankietowe pokazało, jak dużym zainteresowaniem cieszy się w Polsce wdrożenie technologii jądrowych. Zastosowanie reaktorów skali małej (SMR – Small Modular Reactor) i mikro (MMR – Micro Modular Reactor) jest postrzegane jako sposób na rezygnację ze spalania paliw kopalnych (dekarbonizacja) i dążenie do osiągnięcia neutralności klimatycznej. Perspektywa zastosowania technologii jądrowych w ciepłownictwie wydaje się jednak na chwilę obecną raczej odległa, stąd też poszczególne przedsiębiorstwa szukają rozwiązań dostępnych aktualnie na rynku.

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The survey conducted in 2021 by Energopomiar among public and industrial CHP plants showed a great interest in the implementation of nuclear technologies in Poland. The deployment of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) and Micro Modular Reactors (MMR) is perceived as the way to quit fossil fuel combustion (decarbonization) and strive for climate neutrality. However, the use of nuclear technologies seems a distant prospect at the moment, that's why individual companies are looking for solutions currently available on the market.

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Cysty Dinoflagellata z górnego kampanu i najniższego mastrychtu (górna kreda) profilu środkowej Wisły : stratygrafia i paleoekologia

Nechwedowicz Mariusz

Przegląd Geologiczny

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2022

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Vol. 70, nr 10

751--760

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Among the rich dinoflagellate cyst assemblages recovered from the upper Campanian-lowermost Maastrichtian succession of the Middle Vistula River section (central Poland), four taxa (Callaiosphaeridium bicoronatum, Odontochitina dilatata, Oligosphaeridium araneum and Samlandia paucitabulata) have been described as new. An analysis of the distribution of particular dinoflagellate cyst taxa enabled the development of a highly resolved biostratigraphic framework, calibrated against other biozonal schemes (based, among others, on inoceramid bivalves, ammonites and belemnites), formerly established for the succession. A comparison of the Middle Vistula River record with the dinoflagellate cyst ranges documented in other European successions enabled correlations with selected sections in Belgium, the Netherlands, southern Germany and northern Italy, and with the Campanian/Maastrichtian boundary stratotype section in Tercis les Bains, southwest France. A palaeoecological analysis of the dino- flagellate cyst assemblages and of other components of phytoplankton communities revealed a well-defined trend in sea-level fluctuations (likely of eustatic origin), and palaeoclimatic changes probably related to the latest Cretaceous cooling episode, as observed elsewhere.

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Deklaracje środowiskowe i taksonomia wyrobów i obiektów budowlanych

Geryło Robert

Przegląd Budowlany

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2022

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R. 93, nr 11-12

69--74

PL

Deklaracje środowiskowe wyrobów budowlanych stanowią coraz bogatsze, powszechnie dostępne źródło danych o ich charakterystyce środowiskowej. Silny impuls do ich wydawania wynika z potrzeby potwierdzenia statusu zrównoważonych środowiskowo inwestycji lub działalności gospodarczej w ramach taksonomii UE oraz potrzeby określania charakterystyki środowiskowej obiektów budowlanych. Biorąc pod uwagę szeroki zakres aspektów zrównoważonego budownictwa i konieczność uwzględniania wielu danych, istnieje wciąż potrzeba dalszego rozwoju algorytmów projektowania. Zastosowanie BIM może znacznie zwiększyć możliwości wykorzystania m.in. danych z deklaracji, szczególnie w wielokryterialnej optymalizacji i identyfikacji zestawów rozwiązań technicznych zapewniających najkorzystniejsze właściwości użytkowe obiektów, przy najmniejszym oddziaływaniu środowiskowym oraz najniższych łącznych kosztach inwestycyjnych i eksploatacyjnych.

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Environmental declarations of construction products are an increasingly rich, widely available source of data on their environmental characteristics. A strong impulse to issue them results from the need to confirm the status of environmentally sustainable investments or economic activities within the EU taxonomy and the need to determine the environmental performance of buildings. Considering the wide range of aspects of sustainable construction and the need to take into account a lot of data, there is still a need for further development of design algorithms. The use of BIM can significantly increase the possibilities of using e.g. data from declarations, especially in multi-criteria optimization and identification of sets of technical solutions ensuring the best functional properties of facilities, with the lowest environmental impact and the lowest total investment and operating costs.

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Taksonomia - narzędzie wyznaczające kierunek transformacji w ciepłownictwie

Śniegowski Maciej

Instal

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2022

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nr 1

6--9

PL

Taksonomia wskaże, która działalność operacyjna i inwestycyjna kwalifikuje się do zrównoważonej środowiskowo, aby ułatwić inwestorowi stworzenie modeli biznesowych zgodnych z założonymi celami transformacji energetycznej. W artykule przedstawiono rodzaje działalności dla sektora energetycznego, które objęte są taksonomią. Skupiono się na wybranych trzech rodzajach działalności i opisano cele oraz kryteria jakie muszą spełniać te działalności, żeby zostały uznane za zrównoważone środowiskowo.

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The taxonomy will indicate which operating and investment activities qualify as environmentally sustainable to help the investor create business models in line with the goals of the energy transformation. The article presents the types of activities for the energy sector that are included in the taxonomy. The focus was on selected 3 types of activities and described the objectives and criteria that must be met by these activities in order to be considered environmentally sustainable.

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A new agglutinated foraminiferal species (Arenoturrispirillina waskowskae sp. nov.) from the Danian of Contessa, Italy

Hikmahtiar Syouma, Kaminski Michael A.

Geology, Geophysics and Environment

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2022

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Vol. 48, no. 4

405--411

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This paper describes a new Paleogene deep-water agglutinated foraminifera from the Contessa Highway Section, Umbria-Marche Basin, Italy. The new species Arenoturrispirillina waskowskae is characterised by its predominently high trochospiral coiling, which distinguishes it from the genus Glomospira. The new species is also found in the Polish Carpathians.

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Upper upper Albian (Mortoniceras rostratum Zone) cephalopods from Clansayes (Drôme, south-eastern France)

Jattiot Romain, Lehmann Jens, Latutrie Benjamin, Tajika Amane, Vennin Emmanuelle, Vuarin Pauline, Brayard Arnaud, Fara Emmanuel, Trincal Vincent

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2022

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Vol. 72, no. 2

187--233

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We document an upper upper Albian (Mortoniceras rostratum Zone) cephalopod assemblage from Clansayes (Drôme, south-eastern France). Although fossils are rare in local exposures and in the single sampled level, a decade of intensive fossil collecting yielded 290 ammonite and 5 nautilid specimens. In total, we describe 1 species of nautilid and 24 species (within 17 genera) of ammonites, including 13 heteromorphs. Only two of these ammonite taxa were previously recorded from the upper upper Albian at Clansayes, which demonstrates the value of this fauna with regard to taxonomy, palaeobiology and palaeobiogeography. Based on morphological and biometric analyses performed on an extensive material (104 specimens), we discriminate two species for the heteromorphic ammonite genus Mariella Nowak, 1916 within the Mortoniceras rostratum Zone. In addition, we investigate shell chirality patterns in Mariella from the late Albian of southern France. Upon comparison of the Clansayes material with older material from the immediately underlying upper Albian Mortoniceras fallax Zone at the neighbouring Salazac locality, we identify an increase in the proportion of sinistral specimens. This observed increase in the frequency of sinistral Mariella specimens may hypothetically be part of a global evolutionary pattern, considering that nearly all documented younger Cenomanian Mariella (and more generally Cenomanian turrilitids) are sinistral.

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Ophiuroids from the Upper Jurassic of Kuyavia and the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Poland

Loba Michał, Radwańska Urszula

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2022

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Vol. 72, no. 4

391--412

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Ophiuroids from the Upper Jurassic marine deposits (upper Oxfordian-lower Kimmeridgian) of southern and north-western Poland have been studied in two sections: Zalas quarry in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland in southern Poland and Wapienno/Bielawy quarries in the Kuyavia region of north-western Poland. Described herein are nine taxa belonging to five genera (one new to science): Alternacantha Thuy and Meyer, 2013; Dermocoma Hess, 1964; Ophiobartia Loba gen. nov.; Ophioderma Müller and Troschel, 1840; Ophiotreta Verrill, 1899, and three families: Ophiacanthidae and Ophiodermatidae (both of Ljungman, 1867), and Ophiotomidae Paterson, 1985. Only a few representatives of some of these taxa have previously been reported from the Jurassic of Poland. One species, Ophiobartia radwanskii Loba, is established as new. The ophiuroid material recognized from both Polish localities is close to those described from Western Europe at family or even genus level. Both studied ophiuroid assemblages from Zalas and Wapienno/Bielawy show similarities, being dominated by the cosmopolitan species Ophioderma spectabile Hess, 1966, and by different species of Dermocoma. The recognized ophiuroid assemblages represent a rather shallow-water environment.

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Lower Carboniferous solitary rugose corals from the Flett Formation of the Liard Basin, northwestern Canada vs. European and Asian Rugosa of the same geological age

Chwieduk Edward

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2022

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Vol. 72, no. 1

33--88

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The paper focuses on the taxonomic description of the lower Carboniferous (uppermost Tournaisian to middle Viséan) solitary rugose corals from bedded limestone and shale units in the Flett Formation in the Jackfish Gap (eastern Liard Range), northwestern Canada. The corals described herein include 12 species representing the genera Ankhelasma Sando, 1961, Bradyphyllum Grabau, 1928, Caninophyllum Lewis, 1929, Cyathaxonia Michelin, 1847, Ekvasophyllum Parks, 1951, EnniskilleniaKabakovich in Soshkina et al., 1962, Vesiculophyllum Easton, 1944 and Zaphrentites Hudson, 1941. Two of these species are new (Ankhelasma canadense sp. nov. and Ekvasophyllum variabilis sp. nov.) and 6 taxa are described in open nomenclature. The distribution and relative abundance of solitary Rugosa in Europe and the Liard Basin confirm the geographical proximity of those areas and the open marine communication between them during the early Carboniferous. It therefore represents an important contribution to the determination of the time of isolation of the western Laurussia shelf fauna from that of southeastern Laurussia, as well as the time of the possible emergence of species from southeastern Laurussia into the western Laurussia seas. Of particular importance here are cosmopolitan taxa and the timing of their disappearance from the fossil record.

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Asteroidea from the lower Kimmeridgian of Wapienno/Bielawy, Kuyavia region, north-central Poland

Loba Michał, Radwańska Urszula

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2022

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Vol. 72, no. 1

89--106

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A relatively rich assemblage of starfish is recognised from the talus facies of an Upper Jurassic (lower Kimmeridgian) biohermal, sponge-cyanobacterial build-up from the Wapienno/Bielawy succession exposed in a salt-dome anticline in Kuyavia region, north-central Poland. The paper presents 8 taxa belonging to 4 genera (one new to science): Boxaster gen. nov., Noviaster Valette, 1929, Tylasteria Valette, 1929, Valettaster Lambert, 1914, and 4 families: Astropectinidae Gray, 1840, Goniasteridae Forbes, 1841, Sphaerasteridae Schöndorf, 1906 and Stauranderasteridae Spencer, 1913. Only a very few representatives of some of these taxa have formerly been reported from the Jurassic of Poland. Two species are new: Valettaster planus sp. nov. and Boxaster wapienensis gen. et sp. nov. The Jurassic starfish assemblage recognised from the Wapienno/Bielawy succession is interpreted as an offshore starfish fauna with the admixture of allochtonous shallow-water taxa. The lithology of the source deposits indicates their transport by storm agitation and/or mass movements. This fact strongly influenced the preservation state, all collected plates being disarticulated and most of them abraded.

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Distribution of Didymosphenia, Gomphonema and Gomphosphenia diatoms (Bacillariophyta) in Turkish inland waters

Solak Cüneyt Nadir, Wojtal Agata Z., Rybak Mateusz, Yılmaz Elif

Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies

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2021

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Vol. 50, No. 2

198--219

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In this study, a total of 53 taxa were identified from 13 catchments in Turkey. Gomphonema affine var. rhombicum E.Reichardt, G. angusticephalum E.Reichardt & Lange-Bertalot, G. calcifugum Lange-Bertalot & E.Reichardt, G. elegantissimum E.Reichardt & Lange-Bertalot, G. exilissimum (Grunow) Lange-Bertalot & E.Reichardt, G. graciledictum E.Reichardt, G. italicum var. densistriatum Levkov, Mitic-Kopanja & E.Reichardt, G. linearoides Levkov, G. megolobrebissonii D.A.Chudaev, Kociolek & M.A.Golobova, G. minusculum Krasske, G. minutum f. syriacum Lange-Bertalot & Reichardt, G. reediae Levkov, Mitic-Kopanja & E.Reichardt, G. sarcophagus W.Gregory, G. subcapitatum (Grunow) E.Reichardt & Levkov and Gomphosphenia holmquistii (Foged) Lange-Bertalot were recorded for the first time in Turkey. Of the identified taxa, Didymosphenia geminata (Lyngbye) M.Schmidt, Gomphonema acuminatum Ehrenberg, G. affine Kützing, G. angustatum (Kützing) Rabenhorst, G. augur Ehrenberg, G. micropus Kützing, G. minutum (C.Agardh) C.Agardh, G. olivaceum (Hornemann) Brébisson, G. parvulum (Kützing) Kützing and G. truncatum Ehrenberg are common in the waters. G. angustius E.Reichardt, G. insignaffine Reichardt, G. insigne W.Gregory, G. italicum Kützing, G. laticollum E.Reichardt, G. pumilum var. rigidum E.Reichardt & Lange-Bertalot, G. stonei E.Reichardt, G. supertergestinum E.Reichardt and G. vibrio Ehrenberg have been recently recorded from the Turkish waters. The genus Gomphosphenia in Turkey has so far been represented only by G. grovei (M.Schmidt) Lange-Bertalot.

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Distribution and ecology of two interesting diatom species Navicula flandriae Van de Vijver et Mertens and Planothidium nanum Bąk, Kryk et Halabowski in rivers of Southern Poland and their spring areas

Halabowski Dariusz, Bąk Małgorzata, Lewin Iga

Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies

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2021

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Vol. 50, No. 2

137--149

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In this paper, we report new records of rare diatoms that have recently been found in Southern Poland. Planothidium nanum was found only in the upper reaches of the Centuria River, which is not exposed to human influence, while Navicula flandriae was found in two rivers (the Bolina and the Mleczna) affected by salt mine water from hard coal mines. The impact of anthropogenic salinity on diatom communities is as yet poorly documented. Therefore, we conducted a survey on this phenomenon. We surveyed seven sampling sites for diatom assemblages and habitat characteristics, including three sampling sites impacted by mine water. Navicula flandriae was recorded at both sampling sites affected by salt mine water and in two other rivers (the Centuria and the Mitręga), indicating its wide preference for salinity. We confirmed the occurrence of P. nanum at the same site where this species was found and described in our previous paper. In addition, we recorded the occurrence of this species at two other sites in habitats with similar characteristics (lower reaches of the Centuria and Wiercica rivers). Our results indicate a more common occurrence of N. flandriae and P. nanum, which means that further monitoring of diatoms is necessary.

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Financial potential analysis of forestry enterprises of Ukraine on the taxonomy method basis

Ievdokymov Viktor, Grytsyshen Dymytrii, Oliinyk Oksana, Dziubenko Oleg, Yukhymenko-Nazaruk Iryna

Management Systems in Production Engineering

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2021

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nr 1 (29)

3--13

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In the article the method of analysis of financial potential using taxonomy method has been developed as well as it has been tested on the basis of empirical data of Ukrainian forestry enterprises. The application of such a method made it possible to construct a rating assessment of a complex and multifactorial economic object – the financial potential, using algorithms of systematization to multidimensional quantities. The authors present the stages of application of analytical procedures for assessing the dynamics of taxonomic indicators of financial potential as well as for constructing the rating of the suggested business entities. An innovative model of financial potential of forestry enterprises is proposed, which will allow to identify the complex of properties of an object as a basis for forming a set of analytical procedures for assessing its state. The obtained results of the analysis can serve as the basis for constructing a management strategy to optimize the financial potential of the enterprise.

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A Complete Taxonomy of Restarting Automata without Auxiliary Symbols

Otto Friedrich

Fundamenta Informaticae

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2021

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Vol. 180, nr 1-2

77--101

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A complete taxonomy is presented for restarting automata without auxiliary symbols. In this taxonomy, the language classes that are accepted by deterministic and nondeterministic, monotone, weakly monotone, and non-monotone, shrinking and length-reducing restarting automata are compared to each other with respect to inclusion. As it turns out, the 45 types of restarting automata considered yield 29 different classes of languages. By presenting a collection of rather simple example languages, it is shown that, for any two of these language classes ℒ1 and ℒ2, the class ℒ1 is a subclass of ℒ2 if and only if ℒ1 is defined by a type of restarting automaton that is a restriction of a type of restarting automaton that defines the class ℒ2.

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On imperfectly known Hauterivian representatives of the families Holcodiscidae Spath, 1923 and Barremitidae Breskovski, 1977 in Butkov Quarry (Central Western Carpathians, Slovakia)

Vašíček Zdeněk, Klein Jaap

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2021

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Vol. 71, no. 4

433--451

EN

In Butkov Quarry, ammonites of the families Holcodiscidae Spath, 1923 and Barremitidae Breskovski, 1977 occur in the pelagic Lower Cretaceous pelagic deposits of the Manín Unit. This contribution discusses the taxonomy of both families and presents their distribution in the layered sequences of the quarry. The genus Spitidiscus Kilian, 1910 classified as a member of the Superfamily Perisphinctoidea Steinmann in Steinmann and Döderlein, 1890 is an important representative of the Holcodiscidae from a stratigraphic point of view. In areas where the zonal index Acanthodiscus radiatus (Bruguière, 1789) does not occur, as in Butkov Quarry, the first representatives of Spitidiscus indicate the base of the Hauterivian. The genus Plesiospitidiscus Breistroffer, 1947 was long regarded as a member of the Superfamily Desmoceratoidea Zittel, 1895. This superfamily was based on its type species, Eodesmoceras celestini (Pictet and Campiche, 1860), which is not Valanginian in age, as now clearly proven. As a consequence, this superfamily is considered invalid. Vermeulen and Lahondère (2011) proposed an alternative by selecting a suitable initial genus, namely Plesiospitidiscus, for the Family Barremitidae, Superfamily Barremitoidea Breskovski, 1977 (nom. transl. Vermeulen and Lahondère, 2011).

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In defence of invertebrate fossil taxonomy

Fedorowski Jerzy

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2021

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Vol. 71, no. 3

249--258

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Starting from a subjective viewpoint on the decreasing interest in invertebrate fossil taxonomy, this essay discusses its importance in palaeobiological studies exemplified with cases from the palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology of rugose corals, and aims at provoking a discussion on the topic. The possible causes of this negative declining trend include inherent problems of palaeontological taxonomy, and changing systems in science and higher education.

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Bashkirian Rugosa (Anthozoa) from the Donets Basin (Ukraine). Part 10. The Family Krynkaphyllidae fam. nov.

Fedorowski Jerzy

Acta Geologica Polonica

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2021

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Vol. 71, no. 1

53--101

EN

The known occurrence of corals distinguished here in the new Family Krynkaphyllidae varies at the subfamily level. Those of the Subfamily Krynkaphyllinae subfam. nov. are so far almost unknown from outside of the Donets Basin. In contrast, those of the Subfamily Colligophyllinae subfam. nov. are common, possibly ranging from the lower Viséan Dorlodotia Salée, 1920, a potential ancestor of the family, to the Artinskian Lytvophyllum tschernovi Soshkina, 1925. They bear different generic names, but were all originally described as fasciculate colonial. A detailed study of Lytvophyllum dobroljubovae Vassilyuk, 1960, the type species of Colligophyllum gen. nov., challenges that recognition in that at least some of those taxa are solitary and gregarious and/or protocolonial. As such, solitary, protocolonial and, probably, fasciculate colonial habits are accepted in the Colligophyllinae subfam. nov., whereas the Krynkaphyllinae subfam. nov. contains only solitary taxa. The resemblance to the Suborder Lonsdaleiina Spasskiy, 1974 led to the analysis of families included in that suborder by Hill (1981) in the context of their relationship, or homeomorphy, to Krynkaphyllidae fam. nov. This question primarily concerns the Family Petalaxidae Fomichev, 1953; a relationship with the Family Geyerophyllidae Minato, 1955, is more distant, if one exists. The distinct, parallel stratigraphic successions of taxa within two subfamilies of the Krynkaphyllidae fam. nov. document their probably common roots and early divergence. However, a lack of robust data precludes an interpretation or treatment of those successions as phylogenetic. The absence of key stratigraphic and morphologic data meant that eastern Asiatic taxa have not been considered in these successions; however, morphological similarities allow for their tentative inclusion within the Krynkaphyllidae fam. nov. The following new taxa are introduced: Krynkaphyllidae fam. nov., Krynkaphyllinae subfam. nov., Colligophyllinae subfam. nov., Krynkaphyllum gen. nov., Colligophyllum gen. nov., Protokionophyllum feninoense sp. nov., Krynkaphyllum multiplexum sp. nov., Krynkaphyllum validum sp. nov., and three species of Protokionophyllum Vassilyuk in Aizenverg et al., 1983 left in open nomenclature.

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Hypowaagenia nov. gen., a rare genus of giant aspidoceratid ammonite from the Upper Jurassic of Southern Germany

Schweigert Günter, Schlampp Victor

Volumina Jurassica

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2020

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Vol. 18, no. 1

23--36

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A new genus, Hypowaagenia (type species: H. endressi nov. sp.), is introduced for previously unknown large-sized macroconchiate aspidoceratid ammonites with an umbilical and a ventrolateral row of spines. In the medium and adult stages irregular ribs interconnect these spines. The oldest unequivocal record of this genus comes from the Early Kimmeridgian Planula Zone, whereas the type material of H. endressi nov. sp. comes from the upper Platynota Zone/? lowermost Hypselocyclum Zone. Corresponding microconchs have not yet been identified. Although all unequivocal records come from Southern Germany, a Tethyan origin is most likely for these aspidoceratids. Another, stratigraphically younger species tentatively included in Hypowaagenia is Aspidoceras acanthomphalum (Zittel, 1870), which is, however, only recorded yet by mesoconchiate specimens. The ammonite fauna of the type horizon of H. endressi nov. sp. is briefly characterized and termed as the geniculatum Biohorizon of the late Platynota Zone.

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Diversity of the Rhopalodiaceae Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) on Macrophytes of Different Architecture in Small and Shallow Oxbow Lakes (SE Poland)

Rybak Mateusz, Kochman-Kędziora Natalia, Pęczuła Wojciech

Journal of Ecological Engineering

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2020

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Vol. 21, nr 5

164--173

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The research was conducted in July 2018 on six oxbow lakes of the San River. A total of 21 samples from various macrophyte species were collected. Over 400 species of diatoms were identified in the analyzed materials, 9 of which belonged to the Rhopalodiaceae family. Most of these Epithemia and Rhopalodia species developed as dominants in most of the studied samples. One of reported species – Epithemia selengaensis Vishnyakov, Kulikovskiy & Genkal was first time reported from Poland. The aim of the study was to present the taxonomic diversity of the representatives of the Rhopalodiaceae family growing different macrophyte species in oxbow lakes in the summer aspect.

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The history of bears (Ursidae, Carnivora, Mammalia) from Silesia (southern Poland) and the neighbouring areas

Marciszak Adrian Przemysław, Lipecki Grzegorz

Geological Quarterly

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2020

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Vol. 64, No. 4

876--897

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Revision of the Silesian bear fauna, based on material from 152 sites, mainly cave and karstic localities, and also archaeological and open-air sites, shows the presence of 13 forms and species. These records encompass the last 16.5 Ma and may be divided into five main morphophyletic groups. The oldest bears, represented by the genera Ballusia and Ursavus, are dated to 16.5-11 Ma, and belonged to the stem forms of the subfamily Ursinae. After a break of 6 My, the earliest members of the genus Ursus appeared, and all known Pliocene bears in Silesia belong to the genus Ursus were identified as Ursus minimus. They represent one or two migration events. Additionally, between 3.6 and 3.2 Ma, a single occurence of Agriotherium insigne was recorded from the Węże 1 site. A few Early Pleistocene bear records are represented by U. etruscus, which was a probable ancestor of both arctoid and spelaeoid bear lineages. The oldest representative of Ursus ex gr. arctos known so far and assigned to U. a. suessenbornensis is known from one latest Early Pleistocene (1.2-0.9 Ma) locality, while other Polish records of this form require confirmation. The first occurrence of U. deningeri, the oldest taxon within the U. ex gr. deningeri-spelaeus lineage, was recorded from ~700 ka deposits in Silesia. During the pronounced cold period of MIS 12, the Scandinavian ice sheet covered almost the entire modern territory of Poland, with the exception of the Sudetes and the Carpathians. The accompanying drastic faunal turnover led to the formation of the pan-Eurasian Mammoth Fauna at ~460 ka. At that time a characteristic member of this fauna, the steppe brown bear Ursus arctos priscus, a specific ecomorph adapted to live in open grasslands, appeared in this region. It survived until the beginning of MIS 1, when modern Ursus arctos arctos appeared in Silesia and survived to the present day. U. deningeri was the most common bear during the Middle Pleistocene, while the first records of U. spelaeus spelaeus appeared since MIS 7. The latter form was replaced by U. ingressus during the Late Pleistocene (~110-100 ka). Spelaeoid bears totally dominated the cave assemblage, and finally vanished between 27 and 24 ka.