Journal
BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES
Volume 83, Issue 3, Pages 311-326Publisher
CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.2008.03.311
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Echinodermata; Crinoidea; taxonomy; taphonomy; Late Turonian; Bohemian Cretaceous Basin
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- Institute of Geology ASCR, Prague [Z 30130516]
- Grant Agency of the Czech Republic [205/06/0842]
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Crinoid faunas from scour and burrow fills in the basal portions of the Upper Turonian Teplice Formation at the locality Upohlavy, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (BCB) comprise the bourgueticrinid Bourgueticrinus ex gr. fischeri (Geinitz, 1872) represented by cups, proximalia and columnals and, in contrast, the comatulid Placometra ex gr. laticirra (Carpenter, 1880), new to the BCB, preserved as complete cups. Analysis of articulated portions of arms and dissociated brachials in the assemblages allows specimens to be identified and assigned to Bourgueticrinus ex gr. fischeri?, Placometra ex gr. laticirra?, Placometra? sp. and Isocrinus sp. The original echinoderm community also included an indeterminate bourgueticrinid with rhizocrinid columnals. Life habits and taphonomy of these crinoids are discussed. The type specimen of Bourgueticrinus fischeri from similar crinoid associations in Saxony is in need of revision.
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