• dr Marcelina Kondas
Funkcja: Koordynator ds. doktoratów wdrożeniowych i grantowych w Szkole Doktorskiej w Uniwersytecie Śląskim w Katowicach
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E-mail: marcelina.kondas@us.edu.pl
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Scopus Author ID: 57201504768
Publikacje z bazy Scopus
2025
Filipiak, P.; Strullu-Derrien, Ch.; Kondas, M.; Wawrzyniak, Z.; Breuer, P.
New palynomorphs from the Lower Devonian (Emsian) Zagórze Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland Journal Article
In: Palynology, 2025, ISSN: 01916122, (0).
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abstract = {A recent palaeontological investigation of Lower Devonian clastic strata from Poland has revealed the occurrence of a new type of palynomorph, which have elongate vesicles of variable proportions and exhibit bilateral symmetry. Three morphotypes were distinguished; two (Morphotypes A and B) have somewhat rounded poles without apertures, while the third (Morphotype C) has a thickened annular ring at the apex. The characteristic feature of Morphotypes A and C is a variable thickness of the vesicle at both poles, which makes the palynomorph approximately club-shaped. Morphotype B has an elongate, fusiform symmetrical shape. Some specimens are ornamented, showing irregularly distributed grains, but there are also ‘naked’ forms. The morphotypes generally occur as individuals but mono-taxonomic clusters were also observed. The biological affinity of these palynomorphs remains unclear. Some characters (morphology and shape) may indicate a relationship with arthropods, especially eurypterids. Other possibilities (acritarchs; testate amoebae; chitinozoa; fungi; algae) appear unlikely. The palynomorphs are from a coastal/alluvial environment, with a limited marine influence. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.},
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A recent palaeontological investigation of Lower Devonian clastic strata from Poland has revealed the occurrence of a new type of palynomorph, which have elongate vesicles of variable proportions and exhibit bilateral symmetry. Three morphotypes were distinguished; two (Morphotypes A and B) have somewhat rounded poles without apertures, while the third (Morphotype C) has a thickened annular ring at the apex. The characteristic feature of Morphotypes A and C is a variable thickness of the vesicle at both poles, which makes the palynomorph approximately club-shaped. Morphotype B has an elongate, fusiform symmetrical shape. Some specimens are ornamented, showing irregularly distributed grains, but there are also ‘naked’ forms. The morphotypes generally occur as individuals but mono-taxonomic clusters were also observed. The biological affinity of these palynomorphs remains unclear. Some characters (morphology and shape) may indicate a relationship with arthropods, especially eurypterids. Other possibilities (acritarchs; testate amoebae; chitinozoa; fungi; algae) appear unlikely. The palynomorphs are from a coastal/alluvial environment, with a limited marine influence. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
2024
Pisarzowska, A.; Kondas, M.; Zatoń, M.; Rakociński, M.; Szczerba, M.; Krzątała, A.; Radzikowska, M.
In: Marine and Petroleum Geology, vol. 168, 2024, ISSN: 02648172, (0).
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title = {Anatomy of the late Famennian Dasberg event in a deep shelf of southern Euramerica: Oxygenation and productivity in a restricted basin during a progressive long-term cooling},
author = { A. Pisarzowska and M. Kondas and M. Zatoń and M. Rakociński and M. Szczerba and A. Krzątała and M. Radzikowska},
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abstract = {The late Famennian Dasberg event is described as a series of global hypoxic and transgressive events associated with global faunal turnover. The event, recorded on a deep shelf of the Rhenohercynian basin from southern Euramerica, was investigated in the Holy Cross Mountains of Poland using integrated high-resolution geochemical, mineralogical, and palynological studies. The data revealed the progressive restriction of the intrashelf basin resulting from intense regional block tectonics likely connected with the Late Devonian Variscan tectonic activity. This led to weak chemocline ventilation, the development of anoxic conditions, and the deposition of two organic-rich Dasberg black shale (DBS) horizons. The DBS was deposited in an environment characterized by the constant contribution of detrital components from a common source area. A slight change in terrestrial input may have been driven by modest bathymetric changes associated with the tectonics and stronger winds delivering charcoal and terrestrial components (i.e.; miospores and phytoclasts). A supply of nutrients from land and delivery of crucial biolimiting elements (i.e.; nitrogen and phosphorus) from deeper waters stimulated primary productivity, as recorded in phytoplankton blooms. The δ13Corganic values in the DBS reflect the incorporation of primary biomass from mainly marine photoautotrophs into sedimentary organic matter. Episodic delivery of toxic sulphides to the photic zone was detected by small-sized framboids and biomarkers, which record the appearance of green sulphur bacteria that photosynthesized in euxinic water column. The activity of phototrophic sulphide-oxidizing bacteria could have led to hyper-enrichment of Zn (715–1002 ppm) in the Lower DBS. The diachronous appearance of the DBS horizons in Euramerica and Gondwana, and regionally marked extinction of benthic fauna, suggest that anoxia developed in restricted Black Sea–like basins formed by intensive tectonic activity and continental plate convergence. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd},
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The late Famennian Dasberg event is described as a series of global hypoxic and transgressive events associated with global faunal turnover. The event, recorded on a deep shelf of the Rhenohercynian basin from southern Euramerica, was investigated in the Holy Cross Mountains of Poland using integrated high-resolution geochemical, mineralogical, and palynological studies. The data revealed the progressive restriction of the intrashelf basin resulting from intense regional block tectonics likely connected with the Late Devonian Variscan tectonic activity. This led to weak chemocline ventilation, the development of anoxic conditions, and the deposition of two organic-rich Dasberg black shale (DBS) horizons. The DBS was deposited in an environment characterized by the constant contribution of detrital components from a common source area. A slight change in terrestrial input may have been driven by modest bathymetric changes associated with the tectonics and stronger winds delivering charcoal and terrestrial components (i.e.; miospores and phytoclasts). A supply of nutrients from land and delivery of crucial biolimiting elements (i.e.; nitrogen and phosphorus) from deeper waters stimulated primary productivity, as recorded in phytoplankton blooms. The δ13Corganic values in the DBS reflect the incorporation of primary biomass from mainly marine photoautotrophs into sedimentary organic matter. Episodic delivery of toxic sulphides to the photic zone was detected by small-sized framboids and biomarkers, which record the appearance of green sulphur bacteria that photosynthesized in euxinic water column. The activity of phototrophic sulphide-oxidizing bacteria could have led to hyper-enrichment of Zn (715–1002 ppm) in the Lower DBS. The diachronous appearance of the DBS horizons in Euramerica and Gondwana, and regionally marked extinction of benthic fauna, suggest that anoxia developed in restricted Black Sea–like basins formed by intensive tectonic activity and continental plate convergence. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd
Filipiak, P.; Kondas, M.
PALYNOLOGY OF CARBONIFEROUS DEPOSITS (ZARĘBY BEDS) FROM THE JABŁONNA IG 1 CORE AND THE KOWALA QUARRY (HOLY CROSS MOUNTAINS, POLAND) Journal Article
In: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, vol. 94, no. 3, pp. 241-253, 2024, ISSN: 02089068, (0).
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abstract = {Palynological samples from the Zaręby Beds (lower Carboniferous; Holy Cross Mountains) were investigated for palynostratigraphy and palynofacies. Samples, obtained from the Jabłonna IG 1 drill core (21 samples) and the Kowala Quarry (46 samples), allowed determinations of age, ranging from the HD (Cristatisporites hiber-nicus–Claytonispora disticta) miospore zones in the Kowala Quarry section, to the PC (Spelaeotriletes pretiosus– Raistrickia clavata) Miospore Zone in the Jabłonna section, which corresponds to middle and late Tournaisian. This confirmed the diachronism of these sediments. Land microflora and plant remains predominated over marine phytoplankton. The sections are diachronous; the palynofacies record is rather uniform at both sites, with a small difference in age between the investigated areas. The palynofacies study reveals the deposition close to the source area for the land material. Moreover, the presence of amorphous organic matter, obtained from black shales and cherts, suggests a relatively deep and anaerobic sea bottom conditions. © 2024, Polish Geological Society. All rights reserved.},
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Palynological samples from the Zaręby Beds (lower Carboniferous; Holy Cross Mountains) were investigated for palynostratigraphy and palynofacies. Samples, obtained from the Jabłonna IG 1 drill core (21 samples) and the Kowala Quarry (46 samples), allowed determinations of age, ranging from the HD (Cristatisporites hiber-nicus–Claytonispora disticta) miospore zones in the Kowala Quarry section, to the PC (Spelaeotriletes pretiosus– Raistrickia clavata) Miospore Zone in the Jabłonna section, which corresponds to middle and late Tournaisian. This confirmed the diachronism of these sediments. Land microflora and plant remains predominated over marine phytoplankton. The sections are diachronous; the palynofacies record is rather uniform at both sites, with a small difference in age between the investigated areas. The palynofacies study reveals the deposition close to the source area for the land material. Moreover, the presence of amorphous organic matter, obtained from black shales and cherts, suggests a relatively deep and anaerobic sea bottom conditions. © 2024, Polish Geological Society. All rights reserved.
2023
Kondas, M.; Filipiak, P.
The palynology of the Middle–Upper Devonian (Givetian–Frasnian) in the Łysogóry-Radom and Lublin basins, south-central Poland Journal Article
In: Palynology, vol. 47, no. 2, 2023, ISSN: 01916122.
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title = {The palynology of the Middle–Upper Devonian (Givetian–Frasnian) in the Łysogóry-Radom and Lublin basins, south-central Poland},
author = { M. Kondas and P. Filipiak},
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abstract = {The Middle and Upper Devonian (Givetian and Frasnian) deposits of the Łysogóry-Radom and Lublin basins (south-central Poland) presented a diversified palynomorph assemblage. Numerous miospore taxa were documented and also contained well-preserved and varied plant remains, scolecodonts, acritarchs, chitinozoans, organic tentaculitoids, and bioclasts of uncertain biological affinity. Aneurospora extensa, Geminospora aurita, Samarisporites triangulatus and other documented taxa allowed us to establish two local miospore zones: the Givetian ‘Geminospora’ extensa zone and the Givetian–Frasnian Geminospora aurita zone. The time interval of these two zones shows the impoverishment in taxonomic diversity of microflora related to the rapid climate changes that are associated with the global Taghanic Event. The palynofacies analysis indicated a shallow-shelf environment with significant terrestrial input that was controlled by transgressive-regressive cycles, which confirmed the dynamic palaeoenvironmental changes. The new miospore taxon Retusotriletes radomskii is described. © 2022 AASP–The Palynological Society.},
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The Middle and Upper Devonian (Givetian and Frasnian) deposits of the Łysogóry-Radom and Lublin basins (south-central Poland) presented a diversified palynomorph assemblage. Numerous miospore taxa were documented and also contained well-preserved and varied plant remains, scolecodonts, acritarchs, chitinozoans, organic tentaculitoids, and bioclasts of uncertain biological affinity. Aneurospora extensa, Geminospora aurita, Samarisporites triangulatus and other documented taxa allowed us to establish two local miospore zones: the Givetian ‘Geminospora’ extensa zone and the Givetian–Frasnian Geminospora aurita zone. The time interval of these two zones shows the impoverishment in taxonomic diversity of microflora related to the rapid climate changes that are associated with the global Taghanic Event. The palynofacies analysis indicated a shallow-shelf environment with significant terrestrial input that was controlled by transgressive-regressive cycles, which confirmed the dynamic palaeoenvironmental changes. The new miospore taxon Retusotriletes radomskii is described. © 2022 AASP–The Palynological Society.
2022
Filipiak, P.; Kenrick, P. R.; Wawrzyniak, Z.; Kondas, M.; Strullu-Derrien, Ch.
Plants and palynomorphs from the Lower Devonian (upper Emsian) of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland Journal Article
In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 302, 2022, ISSN: 00346667, (2).
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title = {Plants and palynomorphs from the Lower Devonian (upper Emsian) of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland},
author = { P. Filipiak and P.R. Kenrick and Z. Wawrzyniak and M. Kondas and Ch. Strullu-Derrien},
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abstract = {We present a preliminary assessment of a new Lower Devonian biota from an exposure of the Zagórze Formation at Bukowa Góra quarry in the Łysogóry Region of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Abundant plant macrofossils preserved as carbonaceous compressions, adpressions, and permineralizations occur alongside a diverse assemblage of microfossils. Palynostratigraphic analysis places the fossiliferous sequences in the narrow Pro. Zone within the AP Zone of the douglastownense-eurypterota Miospore Zone, which corresponds to the upper part of the Emsian. Palynofacies analysis confirms that these sediments formed in a shallow-water, alluvial environment. The biota contains a rich assemblage of freshwater and brackish water organisms and fully terrestrial ones. Common elements include filamentous green algae, arthropods, terrestrial fungi-like filaments, nematophytes and abundant land plants. Scolecodonts and acritarchs are much rarer, suggesting limited marine influence. The new flora contains stem-group vascular plants, lycophytes and euphyllophytes. Among the permineralized remains is some of the earliest evidence of complex vascular systems, including cruciform and plate-like stelar organizations and secondary wood. We record the earliest fossil evidence of a dissected stele of the cladoxylopsid type. Innovations such as these were fundamental to the later evolution of arborescent growth in plants and the development of forest ecosystems. The biota complements and extends our knowledge of Emsian biotas in Euramerica just prior to the rapid changes that marked the Middle Devonian. It provides insights into a diverse early terrestrial community and raises further questions about the affinities and roles of arthropods and nematophytales in these ecosystems. © 2022 Elsevier B.V.},
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We present a preliminary assessment of a new Lower Devonian biota from an exposure of the Zagórze Formation at Bukowa Góra quarry in the Łysogóry Region of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Abundant plant macrofossils preserved as carbonaceous compressions, adpressions, and permineralizations occur alongside a diverse assemblage of microfossils. Palynostratigraphic analysis places the fossiliferous sequences in the narrow Pro. Zone within the AP Zone of the douglastownense-eurypterota Miospore Zone, which corresponds to the upper part of the Emsian. Palynofacies analysis confirms that these sediments formed in a shallow-water, alluvial environment. The biota contains a rich assemblage of freshwater and brackish water organisms and fully terrestrial ones. Common elements include filamentous green algae, arthropods, terrestrial fungi-like filaments, nematophytes and abundant land plants. Scolecodonts and acritarchs are much rarer, suggesting limited marine influence. The new flora contains stem-group vascular plants, lycophytes and euphyllophytes. Among the permineralized remains is some of the earliest evidence of complex vascular systems, including cruciform and plate-like stelar organizations and secondary wood. We record the earliest fossil evidence of a dissected stele of the cladoxylopsid type. Innovations such as these were fundamental to the later evolution of arborescent growth in plants and the development of forest ecosystems. The biota complements and extends our knowledge of Emsian biotas in Euramerica just prior to the rapid changes that marked the Middle Devonian. It provides insights into a diverse early terrestrial community and raises further questions about the affinities and roles of arthropods and nematophytales in these ecosystems. © 2022 Elsevier B.V.
Kondas, M.; Filipiak, P.
Middle Devonian (Givetian) palynology of the northern Holy Cross-Mountains (Miłoszów, south-central Poland) Journal Article
In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 301, 2022, ISSN: 00346667, (5).
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title = {Middle Devonian (Givetian) palynology of the northern Holy Cross-Mountains (Miłoszów, south-central Poland)},
author = { M. Kondas and P. Filipiak},
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abstract = {Givetian samples from Miłoszów (Holy Cross Mountains; Poland) are characterized by a disparity of palynomorph assemblages including miospores, acritarchs, prasinophytes and chitinozoans. Based on the miospores, the age of the investigated deposits was tentatively established as Givetian. The Geminospora extensa Zone (MT and CV subzones) was documented, which corresponds with the local palynostratigraphical division (“Geminospora” extensa Zone; Ex1 and Ex2 subzones). This involves conodont zones from hemiansatus to Middle varcus. Also, due to the differences of understanding the definition of the important taxon Samarisporites triangulatus its morphological features are taken under discussion. Palynofacies analysis indicates intrashelf, deep-marine depositional environment with slight signal of transgression in the uppermost part of succession. © 2022 Elsevier B.V.},
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Givetian samples from Miłoszów (Holy Cross Mountains; Poland) are characterized by a disparity of palynomorph assemblages including miospores, acritarchs, prasinophytes and chitinozoans. Based on the miospores, the age of the investigated deposits was tentatively established as Givetian. The Geminospora extensa Zone (MT and CV subzones) was documented, which corresponds with the local palynostratigraphical division (“Geminospora” extensa Zone; Ex1 and Ex2 subzones). This involves conodont zones from hemiansatus to Middle varcus. Also, due to the differences of understanding the definition of the important taxon Samarisporites triangulatus its morphological features are taken under discussion. Palynofacies analysis indicates intrashelf, deep-marine depositional environment with slight signal of transgression in the uppermost part of succession. © 2022 Elsevier B.V.
Halamski, A. T.; Baliński, A.; Racki, G.; Amler, M. R. W.; Basse, M.; Denayer, J.; Dubicka, Z.; Filipiak, P.; Kondas, M.; Krawczyński, W.; Mieszkowski, R.; Narkiewicz, K.; Olempska, E.; Wrzołek, T.; Jackson, P. N. Wyse; Zapalski, M. K.; Zatoń, M.; Kozłowski, W.
THE PRE-TAGHANIC (GIVETIAN, MIDDLE DEVONIAN) ECOSYSTEMS OF MIŁOSZÓW (HOLY CROSS MTS, POLAND) Journal Article
In: Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 323-379, 2022, ISSN: 02089068, (7).
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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},
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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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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.
Kondas, M.; Filipiak, P.; Breuer, P.
Teleostomata rackii gen. et sp. nov.: an acritarch from the Devonian (Givetian) of south-central Poland Journal Article
In: Palynology, vol. 46, no. 2, pp. 1-8, 2022, ISSN: 01916122, (3).
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abstract = {The acritarch Teleostomata rackii gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated from the Middle Devonian Skały Beds that outcrop at Miłoszów, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. At the type locality, its stratigraphical range is within the ‘Geminospora’ extensa (Ex) Miospore Zone (= hemiansatus–varcus Conodont Zones), which correspond to the early and middle Givetian. The same acritarch has been illustrated from the Eifelian strata of the Gondwanan shelf in Tunisia, but it was unnamed at the time. This acritarch from Miłoszów can be distinguished from other phytoplankton genera of tetrahedral shape because of its broad processes with distal pore-like openings. © 2021 AASP–The Palynological Society.},
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The acritarch Teleostomata rackii gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated from the Middle Devonian Skały Beds that outcrop at Miłoszów, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. At the type locality, its stratigraphical range is within the ‘Geminospora’ extensa (Ex) Miospore Zone (= hemiansatus–varcus Conodont Zones), which correspond to the early and middle Givetian. The same acritarch has been illustrated from the Eifelian strata of the Gondwanan shelf in Tunisia, but it was unnamed at the time. This acritarch from Miłoszów can be distinguished from other phytoplankton genera of tetrahedral shape because of its broad processes with distal pore-like openings. © 2021 AASP–The Palynological Society.
2021
Stachacz, M.; Kondas, M.; Filipiak, P.; Xueping, M. A.
In: Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 724-739, 2021, ISSN: 10009515, (6).
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title = {Environment and Age of the Upper Devonian–Carboniferous Zhulumute and Hongguleleng Formations, Junggar Basin, NW China: Ichnological and Palynological Aspects},
author = { M. Stachacz and M. Kondas and P. Filipiak and M.A. Xueping},
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abstract = {Two Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous sections, namely the Bulongguoer and Haer (Gennaren area) in the Junggar Basin, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, in northwestern China were examined with regard to ichnology and palynology. The deposits of the Hongguleleng Formation and Namu Member of the Heishantou Formation, respectively, are mostly unbioturbated or poorly bioturbated, with poorly diversified trace fossils, which indicate unfavourable conditions for the burrowing benthic community during the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous. The main factor governing the growth of the bioturbating population was the rapid sedimentation of fine-grained, volcanic material documented as tempestites, which buried the benthic fauna. In the Bulongguoer section, the presence of miospores Teichertospora torquata and Grandispora gracilis enabled identification of the broad Teichertospora torquata-Grandispora gracilis Miospore Zone from the transitional Frasnian/Famennian interval. More accurate identification of palynostratigraphical levels (DE and CZ Miospore zones) is only tentative. On the basis of palynofacies analysis, samples from the lower Bulongguoer section indicate deposition in more proximal conditions, whereas samples from the top of the section indicate deposition in a more distal environment. In the Haer section, only a general biostratigraphic indication for the Tournaisian was possible, owing to poor preservation of organic matter. © 2021 Geological Society of China},
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Two Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous sections, namely the Bulongguoer and Haer (Gennaren area) in the Junggar Basin, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, in northwestern China were examined with regard to ichnology and palynology. The deposits of the Hongguleleng Formation and Namu Member of the Heishantou Formation, respectively, are mostly unbioturbated or poorly bioturbated, with poorly diversified trace fossils, which indicate unfavourable conditions for the burrowing benthic community during the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous. The main factor governing the growth of the bioturbating population was the rapid sedimentation of fine-grained, volcanic material documented as tempestites, which buried the benthic fauna. In the Bulongguoer section, the presence of miospores Teichertospora torquata and Grandispora gracilis enabled identification of the broad Teichertospora torquata-Grandispora gracilis Miospore Zone from the transitional Frasnian/Famennian interval. More accurate identification of palynostratigraphical levels (DE and CZ Miospore zones) is only tentative. On the basis of palynofacies analysis, samples from the lower Bulongguoer section indicate deposition in more proximal conditions, whereas samples from the top of the section indicate deposition in a more distal environment. In the Haer section, only a general biostratigraphic indication for the Tournaisian was possible, owing to poor preservation of organic matter. © 2021 Geological Society of China
Filipiak, P.; Graham, L. E.; Wawrzyniak, Z.; Kondas, M.
Filamentous eukaryotic algae from the Lower Devonian, Bukowa Góra (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland) Journal Article
In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 288, 2021, ISSN: 00346667, (1).
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title = {Filamentous eukaryotic algae from the Lower Devonian, Bukowa Góra (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)},
author = { P. Filipiak and L.E. Graham and Z. Wawrzyniak and M. Kondas},
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abstract = {Palynological investigations of the upper Emsian rocks from the Bukowa Góra Quarry (Holy Cross Mountains; Poland) revealed an organic fraction classified as remains of filamentous algae. Individual cells were arranged linearly and contacted each other. Specimens occurred as short filaments having no branches. Cell walls appeared single-layered, very thin and translucent. Cell surfaces were sometimes covered with very delicate striations, possibly generated by compressional folding. A comparison of the main features of the described taxa with extant algae indicated closest relationship with the chlorophycean green algal orders Ulotrichales and Cladophorales. Representatives of these orders occupy mainly freshwater environments. Palynofacies investigation revealed high content of land origin palynomorphs with complete lack of marine components. The presence of such delicate organisms as algae in sediments might indicate very fast deposition in a proximal, very near-shore, possibly shallow water/lagoonal or alluvial environment. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.},
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Palynological investigations of the upper Emsian rocks from the Bukowa Góra Quarry (Holy Cross Mountains; Poland) revealed an organic fraction classified as remains of filamentous algae. Individual cells were arranged linearly and contacted each other. Specimens occurred as short filaments having no branches. Cell walls appeared single-layered, very thin and translucent. Cell surfaces were sometimes covered with very delicate striations, possibly generated by compressional folding. A comparison of the main features of the described taxa with extant algae indicated closest relationship with the chlorophycean green algal orders Ulotrichales and Cladophorales. Representatives of these orders occupy mainly freshwater environments. Palynofacies investigation revealed high content of land origin palynomorphs with complete lack of marine components. The presence of such delicate organisms as algae in sediments might indicate very fast deposition in a proximal, very near-shore, possibly shallow water/lagoonal or alluvial environment. © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
Kondas, M.; Filipiak, P.
Organic tentaculitoids from the Kowala Formation (Devonian) of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland Journal Article
In: Palynology, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 657-668, 2021, ISSN: 01916122, (2).
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title = {Organic tentaculitoids from the Kowala Formation (Devonian) of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland},
author = { M. Kondas and P. Filipiak},
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abstract = {A palynological investigation was carried out on samples obtained from the Givetian/Frasnian interval in the formation comprising stromatoporoid-coral dolomites and limestones from the Kowala 1 borehole (south-central Poland). These carbonate bank to reef deposits have not previously been subjected to palynological studies. The analysed samples revealed the presence of organic tentaculitoids, which are particularly uncommon. According to their morphological features all observed forms were classified into the subclass Dacryoconarida, of which only representatives from the order Nowakiida were recognised. An organic tentaculite with an associated partially preserved mineral shell was found for the first time. Palynological investigation allowed the palynostratigraphy of this interval to be established as Cristatisporites optivus–Spelaeotriletes krestovnikovii, from the East European Miospore zonation (late varcus up to transitans conodont zones). © 2021 AASP–The Palynological Society.},
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A palynological investigation was carried out on samples obtained from the Givetian/Frasnian interval in the formation comprising stromatoporoid-coral dolomites and limestones from the Kowala 1 borehole (south-central Poland). These carbonate bank to reef deposits have not previously been subjected to palynological studies. The analysed samples revealed the presence of organic tentaculitoids, which are particularly uncommon. According to their morphological features all observed forms were classified into the subclass Dacryoconarida, of which only representatives from the order Nowakiida were recognised. An organic tentaculite with an associated partially preserved mineral shell was found for the first time. Palynological investigation allowed the palynostratigraphy of this interval to be established as Cristatisporites optivus–Spelaeotriletes krestovnikovii, from the East European Miospore zonation (late varcus up to transitans conodont zones). © 2021 AASP–The Palynological Society.
Filipiak, P.; Kondas, M.; Pasquo, M. Di; Rice, B. J.; Doughty, P. T.; Grader, G. W.; Isaacson, P. E.
New colonial acritarch Involusphaeridium gutschicki gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Sappington Formation (Upper Famennian), western Montana, USA Journal Article
In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, vol. 284, 2021, ISSN: 00346667, (3).
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title = {New colonial acritarch Involusphaeridium gutschicki gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Sappington Formation (Upper Famennian), western Montana, USA},
author = { P. Filipiak and M. Kondas and M. Di Pasquo and B.J. Rice and P.T. Doughty and G.W. Grader and P.E. Isaacson},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85095422124&doi=10.1016%2fj.revpalbo.2020.104344&partnerID=40&md5=d7d619dc1cd2a6874a2cd7a28ca164e9},
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journal = {Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology},
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abstract = {Palynological investigation carried on the samples from the Unit 1 of the Sappington Formation (Upper Famennian; Montana; USA) reveals a presence of rich phytoplankton and microflora assemblages. The presence of spheroidal vesicles approx. 20 μm in diameter having a rigid smooth wall and frequently arranged in clusters connected by an external coating are proposed as a new taxon named Involusphaeridium gutschicki gen. et sp. nov. The coating on individual vesicles and colonies of I. gutschicki gen. et sp. nov. suggests a link with algal or fungal groups but also, with the eggs of arthropods. Hence, it is considered as incertae sedis (acritarch group). © 2020 Elsevier B.V.},
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Palynological investigation carried on the samples from the Unit 1 of the Sappington Formation (Upper Famennian; Montana; USA) reveals a presence of rich phytoplankton and microflora assemblages. The presence of spheroidal vesicles approx. 20 μm in diameter having a rigid smooth wall and frequently arranged in clusters connected by an external coating are proposed as a new taxon named Involusphaeridium gutschicki gen. et sp. nov. The coating on individual vesicles and colonies of I. gutschicki gen. et sp. nov. suggests a link with algal or fungal groups but also, with the eggs of arthropods. Hence, it is considered as incertae sedis (acritarch group). © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
2019
Pasquo, M. Di; Grader, G. W.; Kondas, M.; Doughty, P. T.; Filipiak, P.; Rice, B. J.; Isaacson, P. E.
In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 536, 2019, ISSN: 00310182, (7).
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title = {Lower Sappington Formation palynofacies in Montana confirm upper famennian black shale paleoenvironments and sequences across western North America},
author = { M. Di Pasquo and G.W. Grader and M. Kondas and P.T. Doughty and P. Filipiak and B.J. Rice and P.E. Isaacson},
url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85070262889&doi=10.1016%2fj.palaeo.2019.109370&partnerID=40&md5=c7b7368ea593a1b71ee455b28f28a9b2},
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year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
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abstract = {For the first time, Late Devonian palynofacies analyses of the Lower Sappington shale units U1A─D was carried out at Peak 9559 (Sacajawea) and Ainger Lake in the Bridger Range of Montana. Diagnostic spore species Apiculiretusispora verrucosa, Diducites mucronatus and D. versabilis allowed the correlation of our U1A-D with the European Late Famennian A. verrucosa-V. hystricosus Palynozone. The first appearance of Gorgonisphaeridium winslowiae in U1 is the oldest record before the inception of Retispora lepidophyta. Four palynofacies correlative with U1A-D and new findings of invertebrates and microfossils allow the interpretation of paleoenvironmental changes. Amorphous organic matter, marine phytoplankton and pyrite in black shales of U1A-B indicate anoxic bottom conditions occurred in offshore marine environments. An erosional fossiliferous phosphatic lag above these units confirms a regional SB. U1C black shales composed by AOM, marine and terrestrial phytoplankton, land–derived remains and pyrite reveal shallower, dysoxic-anoxic, brackish water environments. A thin layer at the base of Unit 1D yielded AOM and marine phytoplankton and low terrestrial input indicating dysoxic-anoxic conditions were maintained. The lack of organic matter and the presence of invertebrates and microfossils in a thin green fossiliferous mudstone supports the establishment of normal, oxygenated marine conditions maintained in the basal Middle Sappington Member (U2). These two thin units are not part of the underlying anoxic black shale (U1A-B) sequence as commonly was over-simplified. Instead, they are part of a transgressive interval with the basal Middle Sappington. A correlation of the U1 shale interval is established with the global multiphase Dasberg Event. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.},
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For the first time, Late Devonian palynofacies analyses of the Lower Sappington shale units U1A─D was carried out at Peak 9559 (Sacajawea) and Ainger Lake in the Bridger Range of Montana. Diagnostic spore species Apiculiretusispora verrucosa, Diducites mucronatus and D. versabilis allowed the correlation of our U1A-D with the European Late Famennian A. verrucosa-V. hystricosus Palynozone. The first appearance of Gorgonisphaeridium winslowiae in U1 is the oldest record before the inception of Retispora lepidophyta. Four palynofacies correlative with U1A-D and new findings of invertebrates and microfossils allow the interpretation of paleoenvironmental changes. Amorphous organic matter, marine phytoplankton and pyrite in black shales of U1A-B indicate anoxic bottom conditions occurred in offshore marine environments. An erosional fossiliferous phosphatic lag above these units confirms a regional SB. U1C black shales composed by AOM, marine and terrestrial phytoplankton, land–derived remains and pyrite reveal shallower, dysoxic-anoxic, brackish water environments. A thin layer at the base of Unit 1D yielded AOM and marine phytoplankton and low terrestrial input indicating dysoxic-anoxic conditions were maintained. The lack of organic matter and the presence of invertebrates and microfossils in a thin green fossiliferous mudstone supports the establishment of normal, oxygenated marine conditions maintained in the basal Middle Sappington Member (U2). These two thin units are not part of the underlying anoxic black shale (U1A-B) sequence as commonly was over-simplified. Instead, they are part of a transgressive interval with the basal Middle Sappington. A correlation of the U1 shale interval is established with the global multiphase Dasberg Event. © 2019 Elsevier B.V.
2018
Kondas, M.; Filipiak, P.; Paszkowski, M.; Pisarzowska, A.; Elmore, R. D.; Jelonek, I.; Kasprzyk, M.
The organic matter composition of the Devonian/Carboniferous deposits (South Flank of Arbuckle Anticline, Oklahoma, USA) Journal Article
In: International Journal of Coal Geology, vol. 198, pp. 88-99, 2018, ISSN: 01665162, (1).
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title = {The organic matter composition of the Devonian/Carboniferous deposits (South Flank of Arbuckle Anticline, Oklahoma, USA)},
author = { M. Kondas and P. Filipiak and M. Paszkowski and A. Pisarzowska and R.D. Elmore and I. Jelonek and M. Kasprzyk},
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abstract = {The palynological investigation was carried out on the Woodford Shale and Sycamore Limestone samples from Interstate 35 roadcut section (I-35) on the south flank of the Arbuckle Anticline (Oklahoma; USA). All samples were collected from the 54 m long section. According to palynostratigraphy, the section was tentatively divided into three stages: Frasnian, Famennian and Tournaisian but due to poor miospores representation it was not possible to establish any single miospore zone. All samples were strongly dominated by the amorphous organic matter and by marine palynomorphs, mostly prasinophytes. The analysis of the relative frequency, fluctuations in acritarchs diversity, and morphotype variability generally suggest deposition in an open-marine, deep-water basin. Based on palynofacies analysis, the section was divided into three palynofacies: lowest (fully marine; I), middle (fully marine but closer to the shoreline; II), and the topmost palynofacies (III) which was also marine, but with a weak regressive signal. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.},
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The palynological investigation was carried out on the Woodford Shale and Sycamore Limestone samples from Interstate 35 roadcut section (I-35) on the south flank of the Arbuckle Anticline (Oklahoma; USA). All samples were collected from the 54 m long section. According to palynostratigraphy, the section was tentatively divided into three stages: Frasnian, Famennian and Tournaisian but due to poor miospores representation it was not possible to establish any single miospore zone. All samples were strongly dominated by the amorphous organic matter and by marine palynomorphs, mostly prasinophytes. The analysis of the relative frequency, fluctuations in acritarchs diversity, and morphotype variability generally suggest deposition in an open-marine, deep-water basin. Based on palynofacies analysis, the section was divided into three palynofacies: lowest (fully marine; I), middle (fully marine but closer to the shoreline; II), and the topmost palynofacies (III) which was also marine, but with a weak regressive signal. © 2018 Elsevier B.V.