A new diverse charophyte flora and biozonation of the Eocene bauxite cover-sequence at G ant (V ertes Hills, Hungary)
Author
Trabelsi, Khaled
Universit ́ e de Sfax, Facult ́ e des Sciences de Sfax, CP 3000, Sfax, Tunisia; & Universit ́ e de Tunis El Manar II, Facult ́ e des Sciences de Tunis, LR 18 ES 07, C. P. 2092, Tunis, Tunisia; & Department of Geology, University of Vienna, UZA 2, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria;
Author
Sames, Benjamin
Department of Geology, University of Vienna, UZA 2, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria; & Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2401 Chautauqua Ave, Norman, OK 73072, USA;
Author
Wagreich, Michael
Department of Geology, University of Vienna, UZA 2, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria;
Author
K ́ azm ́, Miklos
Department of Palaeontology & MTA-ELTE Geological, Geophysical and Space Science Research Group, Eotvos Lorand University, Pazmany P ́ eter s ́ etany 1 / C, 1117 Budapest, Hungary;
Author
, Andrea Mindszen
Author
Mart ́ ın-Clo, d Carles
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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
2021
2021-07-26
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2021.1938264
journal article
10.1080/14772019.2021.1938264
1478-0941
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Raskyella peckii
var.
vadaszii
(
Grambast & Grambast,
1954)
comb. nov. Trabelsi & Mart́ın-Closas
(
Fig. 6A–S
)
Basionym.
Raskyella vadaszi
(Ŕasky)
Grambast & Grambast (1954)
, 670.
1945
Aclistochara vadaszi
sp. nov.
Ŕasky: 45, pl. II, figs 22–24.
1954
Raskyella vadaszi
comb. nov.
Grambast & Grambast: 670.
1957
Raskyella vadaszi
Grambast
: 358, pl. 5, figs 1–6.
1959
Raskyella vadaszi
Horn
af Rantzien: pl. 20, figs 1–3.
1981
Raskyella vadaszi
Anadon & Feist
: pl. 1, fig. 5; pl. 2, fig. 5.
1981
Raskyella
aff.
vadaszi
Anad́on & Feist: pl. 1, figs 3, 4; pl. 2, figs 1, 2, 6.
1985
Raskyella vadaszi
Bignot
et al
.
: 36, pl. 3, figs 8–11.
1986
Raskyella vadaszi
Riveline
: pl. 37, figs 1–6.
Material.
Hundreds of gyrogonites in samples G-6a and G-6b. Collection numbers of figured specimens:
HNHM-PBO
1517–1534.
Description.
Large sized gyrogonites (800–1150
M
m high and 800–1150
M
m wide) of oblate to ovoidal shape (
ISI
80–120), showing laterally 7–10 (usually nine) convolutions (
Fig. 7
). Spiral cells often convex and ornamented with stout tubercles of different shapes and sizes, in most cases oriented parallel to the intercellular sutures (
Fig. 6A–C
), or more rarely tilted 20–30
Ǫ
but keeping parallelism between adjacent nodules (
Fig. 6E–G
), this being a diagnostic character of this morphotype. Three tubercle morphologies have been observed: (1) rounded tubercles, well individualized in the upper half of the gyrogonite, but fused to neighbouring tubercles in the lower half (
Fig. 6I, K
); (2) elongated tubercles more or less connected to each other and producing slightly wavy (undulated) sutures (
Fig. 6H
); and (3) irregularly alternating round and elongated tubercles (
Fig. 6D
). Base of gyrogonite rounded (
Fig. 6C, J
) to slightly tapered (
Fig. 6A, G
) and showing a small, superficial and pentagonal basal pore, sometimes within a less-marked funnel (
Fig. 6Q
). Apex of gyrogonite truncated or broadly rounded and covered by five independent opercular cells at the end of the spiral cells. Opercular cells roughly prismatic, with its outer surface concave, flat or slightly convex (
Fig. 6L, M
). Germinated specimens show a rounded or rose-like opening (
Fig. 6N–P
). The inside of the gyrogonite allows observation of a characteristic crenulation of the intercellular sutures near their internal side (
Fig. 6R, S
), while, to the outside, sutures are flat. Besides, this crenulation occurs also between the opercule cells themselves and between spiral and opercule cells as already described by Feist in Anad́on & Feist (1981).
Distribution.
R
.
vadaszii
was first described by Ŕasky (1945) from middle Eocene borehole samples (
60 m
depth) at Ǵant, in beds roughly equivalent laterally to the outcrop succession studied here. Therefore, the samples studied may be considered
topotypes
. Subsequently, the age of this
variety was
suggested to be upper Bartonian by Bignot
et al
. (1985) based on the associated microfossils (foraminifers, ostracods and pollen) from the same beds of the bauxite cover-sequence at the Ǵant section (V́ertes Hills).
R
.
peckii
var.
vadaszii
has also been well documented in
France
, in the upper Bartonian of the Paris Basin (
Grambast 1957
,
1958
,
1962a
;
Riveline 1986
) and from several basins in southern
France
(
Feist-Castel 1976
). Anadon & Feist (1981) and Anad́on
et al
. (1992) documented this
variety also
in the upper Bartonian of the Eastern Ebro Basin (
Catalonia
,
Spain
).