Early Triassic conodonts in Western Tethys

• Autorzy: Kolar-Jurkovšek Tea
• Konferencja: Western Tethys meets Eastern Tethys - geodynamical, palaeoceanographical and palaeobiogeographical events : Second Symposium of the International Geoscience Programme IGCP 710 : 28th August - 3rd September, 2023, Kraków, Poland : abstract book
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Conodonts are phosphatic, tooth-like elements of extinct jawless vertebrates that are classified in the independent class Conodonta. Due to their rapid evolution, wide palaeogeographic distribution and high resistance, conodonts are one of the most significant microfossil groups in the biostratigraphy of the Paleozoic and Triassic. Animals with conodonts were bilaterally symmetrical, exclusively marine organisms, where they inhabited a variety of habitats. These include both open sea habitats, whereas some species adapted to shallow habitats of epicontinental seas. For this reason, conodonts are extremely important for understanding of the palaeoecological and palaeogeographic conditions of the Paleozoic and Triassic. They were unquestionably one of the most successful animal groups, since they existed more than 300 million years and their elements are widely used as index fossils. Conodonts have shown their value for Triassic biostratigraphy. Based on international criteria the Permian-Triassic system boundary is defined with the first appearance of the conodont species Hindeodus parvus (Kozur & Pjatakova). The Permian-Triassic interval strata of the GSSP section in Meishan (China) are next to the platform-bearing gondolellids marked by the presence of Hindeodus-Isarcicella population that enabled to introduce also a conodont zonation for shallow facies. A standard conodont zonation is, except for the two lowermost Triassic zones, based on gondolellid genera that lived in deeper water: Clarkina, Sweetospathodus, Neospathodus, Novispathodus, Borinella, Scythogondolella, Icriospathodus, Triassospathodus and Chiosella. Certain Dienerian and Smithian strata of Western Tethys are marked by shallow water and euryhaline genera and due to the absence of global biozonation markers, a stratigraphic value of some genera (Hadrodontina, Pachycladina, Eurygnathodus, Foliella, Platyvillosus) is recognized. These shallow water genera were ecologically controlled (temperature, oxygen levels) that have been adapted to the epicontinental ramp environment and were particulary instrumental in forming the western part of the Tethyan province.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Tethys; Triassic; biostratigraphy

PL

tetyda; trias; biostratygrafia

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwa AGH ; Stowarzyszenie Naukowe im. Stanisława Staszica
• Czasopismo: Geotourism / Geoturystyka
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: nr 1-2 (72-73)
• Strony: 36--36

Twórcy

autor

Kolar-Jurkovšek Tea

• Geological Survey of Slovenia, Dimičeva ulica 14, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024).