@article{2-s2.0-85175341123,

title = {Silurian rugose coral Schlotheimophyllum SMITH, 1945 from the Upper Visby Beds of Gotland, Sweden},

author = { T. Wrzołek and M. Zatoń},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85175341123&doi=10.14241%2fasgp.2023.09&partnerID=40&md5=bae784d5a50dd02e42bd5d4f7769b845},

doi = {10.14241/asgp.2023.09},

issn = {02089068},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-01-01},

journal = {Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae},

volume = {93},

number = {3},

pages = {251-267},

publisher = {Polish Geological Society},

abstract = {A rich (about 60 specimens) collection of Schlotheimophyllum, large rugose corals from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden, was studied. Although the material is mostly fragmentary (beach pebbles), the presence of growth lines, clearly seen in thin sections, provides reliable numerical data. Analyzed were corallum shape, septal numbers, and aspects of coloniality. Uniformity of variability spectra of these parameters indicates that all of the material studied belongs to a single, variable species, which is Schlotheimophyllum patellatum (Schlotheim; 1820). © 2023, Polish Geological Society. All rights reserved.},

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@article{2-s2.0-85150050231,

title = {Episkeletobionts of large rugose corals from the Middle Devonian mesophotic palaeoenvironment recorded in the Pokrzywianka Beds (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)},

author = { M. Zatoń and J. Malec and T. Wrzołek and B. Kubiszyn and M.K. Zapalski},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85150050231&doi=10.14241%2fasgp.2022.01&partnerID=40&md5=d41aaf7bb80a826b67679d1a13986c06},

doi = {10.14241/asgp.2022.01},

issn = {02089068},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae},

volume = {92},

number = {4},

pages = {465-484},

publisher = {Polish Geological Society},

abstract = {Organisms encrusting corals from a coral horizon encountered in a trench in the Middle Devonian (Givetian) Pokrzywianka Beds of the classic Grzegorzowice-Skały section in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, are described and analyzed in the context of their palaeoecological and palaeoenvironmental background. These episkeletobionts form rather a low-diversity community, dominated by microconchid tubeworms, crinoids, and tabulate corals. The last group, however, is especially diverse at the family level, represented by auloporids, alveolitids, coenitids and favositids. These episkeletobionts are considered to have developed in a low-light, lower mesophotic palaeoeonvironment, as evidenced by the presence of platy, alveolitid tabulate coral in the deposits studied. This microconchid-crinoid-tabulate-coral community differs from other Givetian communities from the Holy Cross Mountains (Laskowa and Miłoszów), which also are considered to have developed in low-light hab-itats. The differences in taxonomic composition of episkeletobionts between these three localities most probably resulted from specific local conditions, related to bathymetry (light levels; nutrient levels), the specific nature of the hosts/substrates occupied, and also differences in larval dispersal patterns. This, in turn, shows that vari-ous encrusting communities may have inhabited seemingly similar, marine habitats within a given time interval and neighbouring areas, which may have serious implications for large-scale comparisons of biodiversity within a given palaeoenvironment. © 2022, Polish Geological Society. All rights reserved.},

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@article{2-s2.0-85148110471,

title = {THE PRE-TAGHANIC (GIVETIAN, MIDDLE DEVONIAN) ECOSYSTEMS OF MIŁOSZÓW (HOLY CROSS MTS, POLAND)},

author = { A.T. Halamski and A. Baliński and G. Racki and M.R.W. Amler and M. Basse and J. Denayer and Z. Dubicka and P. Filipiak and M. Kondas and W. Krawczyński and R. Mieszkowski and K. Narkiewicz and E. Olempska and T. Wrzołek and P.N. Wyse Jackson and M.K. Zapalski and M. Zatoń and W. Kozłowski},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85148110471&doi=10.14241%2fASGP.2022.19&partnerID=40&md5=a419b52e6f7c7404301b2ccbe9f9f122},

doi = {10.14241/ASGP.2022.19},

issn = {02089068},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae},

volume = {92},

number = {4},

pages = {323-379},

publisher = {Polish Geological Society},

abstract = {The middle and upper parts of the Skały Fm, Early to Middle Givetian in age, were investigated in four sections at Miłoszów Wood in the Łysogóry Region (northern region of the Holy Cross Mountains; central Poland). The dating is based on conodonts (Polygnathus timorensis Zone to the later part of the Polygnathus varcus/Polygnathus rhenanus Zone; early Polygnathus ansatus Zone cannot be excluded) and spores (Ex1–2 subzones) and, coupled with cartographic analysis and geophysical investigation, allows correlation within the strongly faulted succession. Significant lateral facies variations within the carbonate ramp depositional system in comparison with the better studied Grzegorzowice–Skały section, about 3 km distant, are documented, thanks to conodont-based correlation of both successions. Foraminifers, fungi, sponges, rugose and tabulate corals, medu-sozoans, microconchids and cornulitids, polychaetes (scolecodonts), molluscs (bivalves; rostroconchs; and gas-tropods), arthropods (trilobites and ostracods), bryozoans, hederelloids, ascodictyids, brachiopods, echinoderms (mostly crinoids; rare echinoids; holuthurians; and ophiocistoids), conodonts, fish, plants (prasinophytes; chloro-phycophytes; and land plant spores), and acritarchs are present. Brachiopods are the most diverse phylum present (68 species), other richly represented groups are bryozoans and echinoderms; in contrast, cephalopods and trilobites are low in diversity and abundance. The muddy, middle to outer ramp biota (200 marine taxa; including 170 species of marine animals; 22 photoautotrophs; 6 forams) represents a mixture of allochthonous shallower-wa-ter communities (upper BA3), including storm-and possibly tsunami-affected coral mounds, and autochthonous deep-water soft-bottom brachiopod (e.g.; Bifida–Echinocoelia) communities (BA 4–5). The richness and diversity of the Miłoszów biota is relatively high, comparable with other approximately coeval pre-Taghanic ecosystems during the Devonian climatic deterioration (cooling). Preliminary data indicate that in the Holy Cross Mountains, no large-scale replacement of brachiopod (and probably many other benthic ones; like crinoids) communities took place between the Early–Middle Givetian and the Early Frasnian, in contrast to the demise of the Hamilton/ Upper Tully fauna in the Appalachian Basin. Such a similarity of pre-and post-Taghanic faunas does not exclude the occurrence of environmental perturbations and transient community turnovers, caused by immigrations during the Taghanic Biocrisis, but evidences the successful recovery of the indigenous biota. © 2022, Polish Geological Society. All rights reserved.},

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@article{2-s2.0-85118576518,

title = {Coralliths of tabulate corals from the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)},

author = { M.K. Zapalski and J.J. Król and A.T. Halamski and T. Wrzołek and M. Rakociński and A.H. Baird},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85118576518&doi=10.1016%2fj.palaeo.2021.110745&partnerID=40&md5=b3fae081e49ff927d3ae7ab6d9f1a299},

doi = {10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110745},

issn = {00310182},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-01-01},

journal = {Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology},

volume = {585},

publisher = {Elsevier B.V.},

abstract = {Tabulates, an extinct Palaeozoic group of corals, developed diverse colony morphologies during the Silurian to Devonian peak of reef development. Coralliths, or circumrotatory colonies, are passively motile coral colonies constantly overturned by wave action or currents. Such overturning allows tissue growth on all sides of the colony. They are among the most rarely reported growth forms. Recent corallith-forming scleractinian corals mostly inhabit the shallowest reef environments, but coralliths can also develop at greater depths in areas of low topographic relief, unconsolidated substratum, low coral cover and high water movement. Here, we report on Devonian (Givetian Favosites goldfussi and Frasnian Alveolites? tenuissimus) coralla from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Our analysis suggests these colonies are coralliths, although less mature than usually reported. These corals, unlike previously described growth forms of this kind, lived in relatively deep environments: probably the upper mesophotic (Givetian; Miłoszów), or deep reef fore-slope (Frasnian; Jaźwica and Kowala). Microfacies analysis of the Jaźwica site suggests unconsolidated substratum and high hydrodynamic energy. We conclude that these corals lived in deeper environments where bottom currents caused their autorotation. A good modern analogue for such a corallith-forming environment is the Wistari Channel (Southern Great Barrier Reef), where bottom tidal currents at nearly 30 m of depth are strong enough to overturn colonies of Stylocoeniella cf. guentheri reaching 15 cm in diameter. Our discovery shows that the spectrum of coral growth forms during the Devonian peak of reef development was broader than previously assumed, and that tabulate corals displayed numerous adaptive strategies to various environments. © 2021 The Authors},

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@article{2-s2.0-85087916618,

title = {Colonization of rugose corals by diverse epibionts: dominance and syn vivo encrustation in a Middle Devonian (Givetian) soft-bottom habitat of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland},

author = { M. Zatoń and T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85087916618&doi=10.1016%2fj.palaeo.2020.109899&partnerID=40&md5=c996a419def99733b95cc9ca9bad8331},

doi = {10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109899},

issn = {00310182},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology},

volume = {556},

publisher = {Elsevier B.V.},

abstract = {Middle Devonian (Givetian) rugose corals from the Holy Cross Mountains (Miłoszów), Poland, have been analysed with respect to epibiont colonization patterns. Solitary microconchid tubeworms and colonial bryozoans, hederelloids and ascodictyids numerically dominate on the coral hosts. Moreover, the same taxonomic groups of epibionts dominate both the larger (Heliophyllum; Acanthophyllum; Stringophyllum; Ceratophyllum; Cystiphylloides) and smaller (Thamnophyllum) corallites, indicating the true pattern of epibiosis was achieved. The presence of common bioclaustrated epibionts, constricted and rejuvenated coral calyces, as well as epibionts growing concordantly with the host's growth direction, indicate that at least some corals were colonized during life. The observed low number of overgrowth cases of various epibionts on coral hosts suggests, that competition for hard substrate was negligible, most probably due to abundant coral substrates on muddy sea-bottom of the Givetian sea at Miłoszów. This epibiont community is similar to other known Devonian encrusting communities which likely developed in a more nutrient-rich palaeoenvironments and differs markedly from taxonomically-poor assemblages developing in a more oligotrophic conditions. The presence of Rothpletzella encruster, which is considered to be related to green algae, indicates that the Miłoszów coral community dwelled within the limits of the photic zone. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.},

note = {9},

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@article{2-s2.0-85081726054,

title = {Patterns of sclerobiont colonization on the rugose coral Schlotheimophyllum patellatum (Schlotheim, 1820) from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden},

author = { M. Zatoń and T. Wrzołek and J.O.R. Ebbestad},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081726054&doi=10.1111%2flet.12371&partnerID=40&md5=522e95c8e9e5f3c2c4defd325a14007a},

doi = {10.1111/let.12371},

issn = {00241164},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-01-01},

journal = {Lethaia},

volume = {53},

number = {4},

pages = {486-499},

publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},

abstract = {Analysis of mushroom-shaped rugose corals Schlotheimophyllum patellatum (Schlotheim; 1820) from the Silurian (Upper Visby Beds; Lower Wenlock; Sheinwoodian) of Gotland, Sweden, showed that they were colonized on both the upper (exposed) and lower (cryptic) sides by a variety of encrusting and boring (sclerobiont) biotas, represented by 10 taxa and at least 23 species. Bryozoans and microconchid tubeworms, the most abundant encrusters, dominated on the cryptic undersides of the corals, while the dominant endobionts responsible for Trypanites borings overwhelmingly dominated the exposed surfaces. Except for cnidarian sphenothallids, which were exclusive colonizers of the underside of only one coral host, no other encrusters could be referred to as obligate cryptobionts. Because the upper surface of these corals was likely covered by soft-tissues during life, in specimens lifted off the sea-floor sclerobionts must have settled on the cryptic sides first. They could colonize the upper side only after the coral’s death, unless it was covered by sediment as could be the case in some flat specimens. With time, the space on the underside of the coral skeleton may have progressively been filled by sediment as well, precluding further colonization by sclerobionts. In that respect, the colonization patterns of these corals by encrusters and borers were controlled by the complex interplay of environmental factors, sclerobiont dynamics and coral growth in a given Silurian habitat. Compared with Silurian stromatoporoid hosts, the sclerobiont diversity and abundance noted on the Schlotheimophyllum corals may be regarded as representative for the Silurian as a whole. © 2020 Lethaia Foundation. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd},

note = {4},

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@article{2-s2.0-85041172596,

title = {At the southern limits of the Devonian reef zone: Palaeoecology of the Aferdou el Mrakib reef (Givetian, eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco)},

author = { M. Jakubowicz and J.J. Król and M.K. Zapalski and T. Wrzołek and P. Wolniewicz and B. Berkowski},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85041172596&doi=10.1002%2fgj.3152&partnerID=40&md5=2a8a4b4c56c570325b612326a2f3871b},

doi = {10.1002/gj.3152},

issn = {00721050},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-01-01},

journal = {Geological Journal},

volume = {54},

number = {1},

pages = {10-38},

publisher = {John Wiley and Sons Ltd},

abstract = {Devonian reefs of north-western Gondwana represent the southernmost record of shallow-water coral reefs in the Palaeozoic. However, few studies have attempted to date palaeoecological reconstructions of these high-latitude reefal buildups. This study provides the first detailed palaeoecological analysis of Aferdou el Mrakib, an isolated, Givetian coral-stromatoporoid reef, which developed in a semirestricted basin in the south-eastern part of the Rheic Ocean. The study documents spatial facies variability and succession of faunal replacements accompanying progressive reef accretion towards the sea surface. The investigations included both autochthonous communities found at the base of the reef and, partially, within the reef core, and allochthonous deposits of reef-derived skeletal debris that accumulated in the fore-reef setting. Contrary to some previous suggestions, the study shows that the Aferdou reef shared many characteristics of classical Middle Devonian coral-stromatoporoid buildups, including the ecological succession, limited role of calcareous algae, and development within the range of the euphotic zone, but likely below the zone of regular water agitation. Critical factors in the facies development and temporal changes in the character of reef building were the palaeobathymetry, dominant sedimentary and circulation regimes, level of wave energy, and, possibly, light availability. Distinctive features of the palaeoecology of Aferdou el Mrakib are the dominance of massive colonies of heliolitid tabulates and a subordinate role of massive stromatoporoids, both explained here primarily as a result of increased water turbidity in the high-latitude sedimentary basin. The growth of the high-latitude coral-stromatoporoid reefs in the south-eastern Rheic Ocean was favoured by a combination of the exceptionally warm climate and plate tectonic configuration typifying the Devonian. Of critical importance appears the palaeogeographic position of the Rheic, which resulted in the seawater circulation in the ocean being dominated by tropical water masses, with restricted inflow of cold water from the circumpolar oceanic circulation. Copyright © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.},

note = {21},

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@article{2-s2.0-85046155754,

title = {Cryptic encrusting communities in a Middle Devonian mesophotic paleoenvironment of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland},

author = { M. Zatoń and M.K. Zapalski and B. Berkowski and T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85046155754&doi=10.1016%2fj.palaeo.2018.04.015&partnerID=40&md5=bfa5f59ebdc3dfbdc33b2b24582e59fa},

doi = {10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.04.015},

issn = {00310182},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology},

volume = {501},

pages = {82-91},

publisher = {Elsevier B.V.},

abstract = {The Middle Devonian (Givetian) chaetetid sponges and alveolitid tabulate corals that inhabited mesophotic paleoenvironments of the southern shelf of Laurussia (Holy Cross Mountains; Poland) have been studied with respect to encrustation patterns. These epibiotic communities are characterized by modest diversity and high dominance, and show distinct polarization with respect to the exposed and cryptic sides of the host's skeletons. The most abundant davidsoniid brachiopods and microconchids show strong preferences toward the lower (cryptic) sides, while auloporid tabulate corals dominate on the exposed sides of the hosts. The remaining and much rarer epibionts, cornulitids and rugose corals, show no clear preferences. In some shallow-water Silurian paleoenvironments, auloporids are known to dominate the cryptic sides of the hosts. Thus, considering the auloporid tabulates as photosymbiotic corals, their absence or rarity in the Middle Devonian cryptic habitats might have resulted from insufficient irradiance levels in otherwise depleted light conditions. As a result, the available space and lack or lower competition for the area with faster-growing colonial auloporids, enabled solitary encrusters to colonize the cryptic niches. The scarce bioerosion traces and rather low diversity of epibionts in our case may indicate that these mesophotic reefs developed in a nutrient-poor, oligotrophic habitats. The davidsoniid-dominated, cryptic encrusting communities were widespread in some paleoenvironments during the Middle Devonian, being known from both Laurussia and South China craton. However, such mesophotic cryptic communities, characterized by distinct polarization in comparison to open-surface environments, contrast with other Givetian deep-water, aphotic cryptic communities reported so far, where such polarization is hardly visible. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.},

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@article{2-s2.0-85016100958,

title = {Deep in shadows, deep in time: the oldest mesophotic coral ecosystems from the Devonian of the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland)},

author = { M.K. Zapalski and T. Wrzołek and S. Skompski and B. Berkowski},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85016100958&doi=10.1007%2fs00338-017-1575-8&partnerID=40&md5=def2d3dee37f2c892d4bc1d7bf7a1c77},

doi = {10.1007/s00338-017-1575-8},

issn = {07224028},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-01-01},

journal = {Coral Reefs},

volume = {36},

number = {3},

pages = {847-860},

publisher = {Springer Verlag},

abstract = {Recent mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCE) occur at depths between 30 and 150 m and are characterized by dominance of platy corals. Such morphology is an effect of specific adaptation to efficient light harvesting. Here, we describe and analyze platy coral assemblages from two Middle Devonian localities in the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland) that during this time were located on the southern shelf of Laurussia at tropical latitudes. The Eifelian argillaceous sediments of Skały are dominated by platy and encrusting tabulate corals (Roseoporella; Platyaxum and Alveolites). Coeval faunas from the shallow-water parts of the Holy Cross Mountains basin display bulbous and branching morphology, thus indicating a Paleozoic coral zonation similar to that known in the Recent. Hence, the Skały site seems to be the oldest known MCE (ca. 390 Ma). A Givetian biostrome from Laskowa Quarry is a second example dominated by platy corals, with abundant branching forms; this site can be recognized as another Devonian MCE. Frondescent Platyaxum, common at both sites, had a growth habit similar to that of Recent Leptoseris, Mycedium or Pavona. Platy morphology is photoadaptive and may evidence photosymbiosis in tabulate (Alveolites; Roseoporella; Platyaxum) and rugose corals (Phillipsastrea). Furthermore, it may serve as a tool for recognition of the lower euphotic zone in the fossil record. © 2017, The Author(s).},

note = {19},

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@article{2-s2.0-85007035121,

title = {New famennian colonial coral (Rugosa) from the holy cross mountains (Poland): An example of local evolution after Frasnian-Famennian extinction},

author = { B. Berkowski and M.K. Zapalski and T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85007035121&doi=10.1007%2fs00114-016-1356-1&partnerID=40&md5=0d45825017832cfc1fcf402e5c4e67d6},

doi = {10.1007/s00114-016-1356-1},

issn = {00281042},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

journal = {Science of Nature},

volume = {103},

number = {3},

publisher = {Springer Verlag},

abstract = {Colonial rugose corals are extremely rare in the fossil record after the Late Devonian (Frasnian-Famennian) extinction event. Here, we report a new genus and species, Famastraea catenata, from the late Famennian of the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Kowala) in Poland. Although this taxon is colonial, it displays many morphological characters very close to the typically late Famennian solitary species Palaeosmilia aquisgranensis (Frech; 1885), described earlier from the same locality. Hence, we postulate that F. catenata is derived from P. aquisgranensis. In contrast to other Famennian colonial rugose corals, the new taxon represents an example of local evolution within the group of socalled ‘Strunian’ corals. Consequently, we postulate that the new taxon represents a new colonial rugose fauna, which, however, did not survive the subsequent Late Devonian crisis (i.e. Hangenberg event). F. catenata most probably inhabited deeper water settings, possibly near the boundary between the euphotic and dysphotic zones, as inferred from many other benthic taxa described from this locality. © The Author(s) 2016.},

note = {5},

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@article{2-s2.0-84962338739,

title = {Tabulate corals after the Frasnian/Famennian crisis: A unique fauna from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland},

author = { M.K. Zapalski and B. Berkowski and T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962338739&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0149767&partnerID=40&md5=7db0650b2256c8c604e69ed97c6d435b},

doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0149767},

issn = {19326203},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

journal = {PLoS ONE},

volume = {11},

number = {3},

publisher = {Public Library of Science},

abstract = {Famennian tabulate corals were very rare worldwide, and their biodiversity was relatively low. Here we report a unique tabulate fauna from the mid- and late Famennian of the western part of the Holy Cross Mountains (Kowala and Ostrówka), Poland. We describe eight species (four of them new; namely ?Michelinia vinni sp. nov.; Thamnoptychia mistiaeni sp. nov.; Syringopora kowalensis sp. nov. and Syringopora hilarowiczi sp. nov.); the whole fauna consists of ten species (two others described in previous papers). These corals form two assemblages-the lower, mid-Famennian with Thamnoptychia and the upper, late Famennian with representatives of genera ?Michelinia, Favosites, Syringopora and ?Yavorskia. The Famennian tabulates from Kowala represent the richest Famennian assemblage appearing after the F/F crisis (these faunas appear some 10 Ma after the extinction event). Corals described here most probably inhabited deeper water settings, near the limit between euphotic and disphotic zones or slightly above. At generic level, these faunas show similarities to other Devonian and Carboniferous faunas, which might suggest their ancestry to at least several Carboniferous lineages. Tabulate faunas described here represent new recruits (the basin of the Holy Cross mountains was not a refuge during the F/F crisis) and have no direct evolutionary linkage to Frasnian faunas from Kowala. The colonization of the seafloor took place in two separate steps: first was monospecific assemblage of Thamnoptychia, and later came the diversified Favosites-Syringopora-Michelinia fauna. © Copyright 2016 Zapalski et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.},

note = {10},

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@article{2-s2.0-84922336373,

title = {Simple and practical techniques to manage small databases, illustrated by a case study: Bibliographic data from the “Fossil Cnidaria & Porifera” newsletter (1972-2010) [Techniques simples et efficaces pour gérer de petites banques de données, illustrées par une étude de cas : données bibliographiques issues du bulletin d'information “Fossil Cnidaria & Porifera” de 1972 à 2010]},

author = { K. Zalecka and T. Wrzołek and B. Granier},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84922336373&doi=10.4267%2f2042%2f56249&partnerID=40&md5=e82245bba1e4123c81605e555468dda9},

doi = {10.4267/2042/56249},

issn = {17652553},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

journal = {Carnets de Geologie},

volume = {15},

number = {2},

pages = {13-19},

publisher = {Carnets de Geologie},

abstract = {Small databases, i.e., with less than 15,000 entries, are sometimes handled using inap-propriate, complex, and often expensive data management systems. We present and briefly discuss a few types of proprietary and open-source, relational and non-relational, server-based versus portable databases and specific tools to handle the latter. With a collection of nearly 7,000 bibliographic notes during its 40-year history "Fossil Cnidaria & Porifera (FC&P)", the newsletter of the "International Asso-ciation for Study of Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera", was chosen as a case study. The analysis of the tem-poral trends in the FC&P bibliographic database shows a decrease over the years in the number of publications effectively reported in FC&P. Almost all relevant papers for the decade 1981-1990 are reported, but this good coverage ratio falls down to less than 50% after 2000; accordingly, the concern about the data representativeness is addressed in our interpretation. Besides the classical database management systems and spreadsheet software, which were originally used with the FC&P case study, we present two discrete, open-source, flat and portable options where data can be displayed using any widely available Internet browser, and that are suitable to handle most small databases (XML or JS files) as documented herein. © 2015, Carnets de Geologie. All Rights reserved.},

note = {2},

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@article{2-s2.0-84922291489,

title = {Devonian phillipsastreid tetracorals of the genus rozkowskaella from the holy cross Mountains, Poland [Tétracoralliaires dévoniens du genre Rozkowskaella (Phillipsastreidae) des Monts Sainte-Croix, Pologne]},

author = { T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84922291489&doi=10.4267%2f2042%2f56041&partnerID=40&md5=9d9313c19195f208dd6fa21403c4fe0f},

doi = {10.4267/2042/56041},

issn = {17652553},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

journal = {Carnets de Geologie},

volume = {14},

number = {20},

pages = {439-459},

publisher = {Carnets de Geologie},

abstract = {Solitary or weakly colonial Phillipsastreid tetracorals of the Upper Frasnian of Holy Cross Mountains, Poland, with triangular to oval shape of transverse-section and tendency towards reduction of the horseshoe dissepiments, are included here in the genus Rozkowskaella, with Rozkowskaella san-daliformis, R. cf. sandaliformis and Rozkowskaella sp. © 2014, Carnets de Geologie. All rights reserved.},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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}

@article{2-s2.0-37249064747,

title = {A revision of the Devonian rugosan phillipsastreid genus Smithicyathus},

author = { T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-37249064747&partnerID=40&md5=2a275f53b735a40340332a4ff3329117},

issn = {05677920},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

journal = {Acta Palaeontologica Polonica},

volume = {52},

number = {3},

pages = {609-632},

abstract = {The rugose coral genus Smithicyathus is diagnosed in this paper as massive to phaceloid phillipsastreid, with common horseshoe dissepiments and major septa that are very short in the tabularium. Revised taxonomy of this genus is based on analysis of over 20 numerical characters measured in sections and/or extracted from the literature data. Species are distinguished either by morphometric non-overlap in at least one, key feature or by geographic-stratigraphic isolation. The earliest possible representatives of the genus are known from the Eifelian of Angara (S.? emendatus and S.? russakovi). In the Upper Frasnian Smithicyathus is represented by seven species; in western Euramerica occur S. cinctus and S. mcleani sp. nov.; south-eastern Euramerican shelf area is with S. lacunosus, S. cf. lacunosus, S. smithi, S. cf. smithi, and S. lubliniensis; one probable species is recorded in Angara: S.? belkovskiense. The genus did not survive the Frasnian-Famennian crisis. Smithicyathus lived in tropical and sub-tropical shallow-marine carbonate environments, with the possible exception of the northern mid-latitudes species from Siberia. In the Holy Cross Mountains, S. lacunosus and S. smithi show a preference for restricted-marine facies. They may make up over 90% of all rugosan colonies collected in such locations, whereas in the more open-marine settings they are rare both in numbers and in proportion to other rugosan species.},

note = {3},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@article{2-s2.0-35748940973,

title = {Comments to paper on Radiastraea by Andreas May},

author = { T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-35748940973&doi=10.3140%2fbull.geosci.2007.03.297&partnerID=40&md5=9665946764b0586227acc34a793f6e65},

doi = {10.3140/bull.geosci.2007.03.297},

issn = {12141119},

year  = {2007},

date = {2007-01-01},

journal = {Bulletin of Geosciences},

volume = {82},

number = {3},

pages = {297-},

abstract = {[No abstract available]},

note = {1},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{2-s2.0-22144457566,

title = {Devonian rugose corals of the Phillipsastrea hennahii species group},

author = { T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-22144457566&partnerID=40&md5=8d79d1c9d90e50f6503ad50749bf7ef5},

issn = {00015709},

year  = {2005},

date = {2005-01-01},

journal = {Acta Geologica Polonica},

volume = {55},

number = {2},

pages = {163-185},

abstract = {Massive phillipsastreid tetracorals similar to Phillipsastrea hennahii, defined as a Ph. hennahii species group, are characterized by reduced intercorallite walls (thamnasterioid or subthamnasterioid habit), by variable but generally good development of horseshoe dissepiments at the tabularium/dissepimentarium boundary, and by strongly deflected peripheral platforms at corallite margins. Seven species of the Ph. hennahii species group, mostly from the Givetian of southern Euramerica, Iberia and northern Gondwana, are reviewed. Two species, the Middle Givetian Phillipsastrea sobolewi (Róźkowska 1956) and the Late Givetian Phillipsastrea jachowiczi, a new species described herein, both from the Holy Cross Mountains (Poland) are described and illustrated. Also described from that area is Phillipsastrea falsa COEN-AUBERT 1987 from the Upper Frasnian.},

note = {6},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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}

@article{2-s2.0-0036281704,

title = {Devonian history of diversity of the rugosan Cyathaxonia fauna},

author = { T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0036281704&partnerID=40&md5=d5d246fe27217da74a0ed88ce9a25230},

issn = {05677920},

year  = {2002},

date = {2002-01-01},

journal = {Acta Palaeontologica Polonica},

volume = {47},

number = {2},

pages = {397-404},

abstract = {Literature data indicate above average diversity of the Cyathaxonia fauna in the Devonian period, both in absolute numbers of (sub)families and genera per age and also with respect to taxonomic diversities as calculated per Ma (106 years). The Emsian and Famennian faunas, although represented by most numerous (sub)families and genera, have less than average diversities, due to their more than average durations, whereas the shorter intervals of the Pragian and Givetian have the highest values for diversity per Ma, and Frasnian faunas the lowest diversities, for both (sub)families and genera. The post-Givetian crisis may have been responsible for the Frasnian minimum, although limited temporal resolution of the analysis does not allow for a more precise description of the Givetian/Frasnian transition. However, "silent taxa" are extremely numerous in the Frasnian, i.e., taxa which are present both prior to and after the Frasnian, but missing from the Frasnian record itself indicating that the Famennian Cyathaxonia fauna contains significant numbers of Lazarus and/or Elvis taxa.},

note = {5},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{2-s2.0-0035339194,

title = {Upper Devonian sponges from the holy cross mountains, Central Poland},

author = { J.K. Rigby and A. Pisera and T. Wrzołek and G. Racki},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0035339194&doi=10.1111%2f1475-4983.00187&partnerID=40&md5=78c8bb9f66b75b1727aafaef975a3ae5},

doi = {10.1111/1475-4983.00187},

issn = {00310239},

year  = {2001},

date = {2001-01-01},

journal = {Palaeontology},

volume = {44},

number = {3},

pages = {447-488},

publisher = {Blackwell Publishing Ltd},

abstract = {The rich fauna of Late Devonian (Late Frasnian) siliceous sponges from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland is composed of 15 species and 11 genera. Both astylospongid demosponges (lithistids) and hexactinosan hexactinellids are present. The following new genera and/or species are proposed: D regulara Rigby and Pisera sp. nov., Jazwicella media Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. nov., Astyloscyphia irregularia Rigby and Pisera ge. et sp. nov., A. turbinata Rigby and Pisera ge. et sp. nov., Astylotuba modica Rigby and Pisera ge. et sp. nov., Paleoregulara cupula Rigby and Pisera gen. et. nov., Palaeoramospongia bifurcata Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. nov., Cordiospongia conica Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. nov., Paleocraticularia elongata Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. nov., P. gigantia Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. nov., Polonospongia devonica Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. nov., P. fistulata Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. noc., Urnospongia modica Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. nov., and Conicospongia annulata Rigby and Pisera gen. et sp. nov. The investigated fauna contains the youngest astylospongiids known the oldest well-preserved, and most diversified Palaeozoic hexactinosans. The sponge fauna constituted a significant element of a brachiopod-coral-sponge assemblage that inhabited a deep slope of the local Dyminy Reef structure, during its final phase of growth, in a clearly hemipelagic setting. This fauna is limited to the ontrashelf depression within an ancipiently drowned carbonate platform.},

note = {26},

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pubstate = {published},

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}

@article{2-s2.0-0343920782,

title = {Cyathaxonia fauna and extinction the rugose corals at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary [Fauna Cyathaxonia a wymieranie koralowcow Rugosa na granicy fran-famen]},

author = { T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0343920782&partnerID=40&md5=6d876d38b53fce6e888c000ba24df201},

issn = {00332151},

year  = {1999},

date = {1999-01-01},

journal = {Przeglad Geologiczny},

volume = {47},

number = {4},

pages = {360-363},

abstract = {Published data on distribution of Devonian tetracorals (Oliver and Pedder 1979 and other sources) indicate that small solitary rugose corals (Cyathaxonia fauna) are rather common in the Middle Devonian, but relatively rare in the Frasnian and again numerous in the Famennian, with many new genera appearing after the Frasnian-Famennian boundary (Table 2), so fatal for most of the tetracorals. Possibly the main crisis of the Cyathaxonia fauna occurred at some time between the Givetian and Frasnian, when total decrease of diversity of the Rugosa affected the Cyathaxonia fauna to far greater degree than the other tetracorals. In the Holy Cross Mountains the Cyathaxonia fauna (Tab.1) represents the relatively offshore, non-reefal settings of the Eifelian and Givetian in the Lysogory basin (Fig.1) and it is almost totally lacking in the central shallow-marine Kielce carbonate platform. The fauna belongs to Metriophyllidae (2 species of the genus Metriophyllum), Laccophyllidae (8 species of the genera Metrionaxon, Syringaxon and Guerichiphyllum) and Stereolasmatidae (1 species of Stewartophyllum). The latter species, if correctly identified, belongs to the family typical of the Middle Devonian of the Eastern Americas (Oliver, 1977) and, jointly with a few zaphrentid species (Heliophyllum) and siphonophrentids (,Breviphrentis') - see Rozkowska in Pajchlowa (1957) - represents the immigrants from Eastern Americas to the European area of the Old World Realm.},

note = {1},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{2-s2.0-0027811454,

title = {Rugose corals from the Devonian Kowala Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains},

author = { T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0027811454&partnerID=40&md5=e6eb6fe47eb14f65caee8136b9119a9e},

issn = {05677920},

year  = {1993},

date = {1993-01-01},

journal = {Acta Palaeontologica Polonica},

volume = {37},

number = {2-4},

pages = {217-254},

abstract = {Rugose corals of the Givetian to Lower Frasnian Kowala limestone Formation in the environs of Checiny, SW Holy Cross Mts and in its age equivalents in the Silesian-Cracow region of Southern Poland represent five distinct assemblages of restricted time-and-space distribution. Exceptional are two Hexagonaria horizons with common massive colonies. Diffusolasma gen. nov., Sociophyllum severiacum sp. nov., Temnophyllum zamkowae sp. nov. and Hexagonaria hexagona kowalae subsp. nov. are proposed as the new taxa. -from Author},

note = {26},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{2-s2.0-0025527836,

title = {Lithostratigraphy of the Devonian stromatoporoid-coral carbonate sequence in the Holy Cross Mountains [Litostratygrafia dewonskiej serii stromatoporoidowo-koralowcowej w Gorach Swietokrzyskich]},

author = { M. Narkiewicz and G. Racki and T. Wrzołek},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0025527836&partnerID=40&md5=0bfe24de6c81e7dcc4b9973fdf114c29},

issn = {00235873},

year  = {1990},

date = {1990-01-01},

journal = {Kwartalnik Geologiczny},

volume = {34},

number = {3},

pages = {433-456},

abstract = {The stromatoporoid-coral series is ascribed to the Givetian and lower Frasnian in the southern and western part of the area. Most of the series is here included into the formal lithostratigraphic unit defined as the Kowala Formation built of coral-stromatoporoid dolostones and limestones, with total thickness ranging from 330 to 800 m. The lowest part of the formation is ascribed to the informal unit I (M. Narkiewicz, in press) some 80 m thick, and representing a sebkha sequence. Higher up, the informal Stringocephalus Beds are described, overlain by the Jazwica Member built of micritic limestone, an important key horizon, from 2.2 to 13.1 m thick. In the upper part of the Kowala Formation we define the Sitkowka Beds. In turn, the Kadzielnia Member, built of a massive limestone, represents Frasnian bioherms of variable size, occurring in the uppermost part of the Kowala Formation. In the southern part of the investigated area the Checiny Beds are defined. Lower part of the Kowala Formation underwent dolomization which encompassed successively higher lithostratigraphic units from south to north. -from English summary},

note = {44},

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pubstate = {published},

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}