Turonian marine amniotes from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21340%2F14%3A00369564" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21340/14:00369564 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00023272:_____/14:#0002633
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756813000502" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756813000502</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0016756813000502" target="_blank" >10.1017/S0016756813000502</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Turonian marine amniotes from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic
Original language description
Despite being known for over 155 years, the Late Cretaceous marine amniotes of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin in the Czech Republic have received little recent attention. These fossils are however significant because they record a diverse range of taxa from an incompletely known geological interval: the Turonian. The presently identifiable remains include isolated bones and teeth, together with a few disarticulated skeletons. The most productive stratigraphical unit is the Lower-Middle Turonian Bila Hora Formation, which has yielded small dermochelyoid sea turtles, a possible polycotylid plesiosaur and elements compatible with the giant predatory pliosauromorph Polyptychodon. A huge protostegid, together with an enigmatic cheloniid-like turtle, Polyptychodon-like dentigerous components, an elasmosaurid and a tethysaurine mosasauroid have also been found in strata corresponding to the Middle-Upper Turonian Jizera Formation and Upper Turonian - Coniacian Teplice Formation. The compositional character of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin fauna is compatible with coeval assemblages from elsewhere along the peri-Tethyan shelf of Europe, and incorporates the globally terminal Middle-Upper Turonian occurrence of pliosauromorph megacarnivores, which were seemingly replaced by mosasauroids later in the Cretaceous.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10505 - Geology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2014
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Geological Magazine
ISSN
0016-7568
e-ISSN
1469-5081
Volume of the periodical
151
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
183-198
UT code for WoS article
000332374100016
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84896983617