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Cambrian Fossils from the Barrandian Area (Czech Republic) Housed in the Musée D'histoire Naturelle De Lille Cambrian fossils from the Barrandian area (Czech Republic) housed in the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Lille Oldřich Fatka, Petr Budil, Catherine Crônier, Jessie Cuvelier, Lukáš Laibl, Thierry Oudoire, Marika Polechová, Lucie Fatková To cite this version: Oldřich Fatka, Petr Budil, Catherine Crônier, Jessie Cuvelier, Lukáš Laibl, et al.. Cambrian fossils from the Barrandian area (Czech Republic) housed in the Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Lille. Carnets de Geologie, Carnets de Geologie, 2015, 15 (9), pp.89-101. hal-02403161 HAL Id: hal-02403161 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02403161 Submitted on 10 Dec 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Carnets de Géologie [Notebooks on Geology] - vol. 15, n° 9 Cambrian fossils from the Barrandian area (Czech Republic) housed in the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille 1 Oldřich FATKA 2 Petr BUDIL 3 Catherine CRÔNIER 4 Jessie CUVELIER 5 Lukáš LAIBL 6 Thierry OUDOIRE 7 Marika POLECHOVÁ 8 Lucie FATKOVÁ Abstract: A complete list of fossils originating from the Cambrian of the Barrandian area and housed in the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille is compiled. The collection includes two agnostids, ten trilobites, one brachiopod and one echinoderm species, all collected at ten outcrops in the Buchava Formation of the Skryje–Týřovice Basin and most probably also at two outcrops in the Jince Formation of the Příbram–Jince Basin. A large part of the material was collected by Prof. Charles BARROIS and Dr. Louis DOLLÉ (both University of Lille) during the excursion organised before the Ninth International Geological Congress in Vienna in 1903. Other, poorly documented specimens were purchased from the enterprise KRANTZ towards the end of the 19th century and in the first years of 20th century. The geographic position and stratigraphy of outcrops, from which the material originates, are briefly discussed. Key Words: Trilobita; Agnostida; Echinodermata; Brachiopoda; middle Cambrian; Barrandian area. Citation : FATKA O., BUDIL P., CRÔNIER C., CUVELIER J., LAIBL L., OUDOIRE T., POLECHOVÁ M. & FATKOVÁ L. (2015).- Cambrian fossils from the Barrandian area (Czech Republic) stored in the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille.- Carnets Géol., Madrid, vol. 15, nº 9, p. 89-101. Résumé : Fossiles cambriens de la région barrandienne (République tchèque) conservés au Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille.- Une liste complète des fossiles provenant du Cambrien de la région barrandienne déposés au Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille a été établie. La collection comprend deux espèces d'agnostidés, dix trilobites, un brachiopode et un échinoderme ; les fossiles récoltés dans dix affleurements proviennent tous de la Formation Buchava du bassin de Skryje– Týřovice et probablement également de deux affleurements de la Formation Jince du bassin de Příbram-Jince. Une grande partie du matériel a été récoltée par le Professeur Charles BARROIS et par le Dr. Louis DOLLÉ (de l'Université de Lille) au cours de l'excursion organisée avant le VIIIème Congrès géologique national à Vienne en 1903. Les autres spécimens, mal documentés, ont été achetés à l'entreprise KRANTZ à la fin de 19ème siècle et dans les premières années du 20ème siècle. La situation géographique et la stratigraphie des affleurements d'où provient le matériel sont brièvement discutées. Mots-clefs : Trilobita ; Agnostida ; Echinodermata ; Brachiopoda ; Cambrien moyen ; aire barrandienne. 1 Charles University, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Albertov 6, CZ–128 43, Prague 2 (Czech Republic) [email protected] 2 Czech Geological Survey, Klárov 3, Praha 1, 118 21 (Czech Republic) [email protected] 3 Université de Lille, UFR Sciences Terre, UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, Villeneuve d'Ascq 59655 (France) [email protected] 4 Université de Lille, UFR Sciences Terre, UMR 8198 Evo-Eco-Paleo, Villeneuve d'Ascq 59655 (France) [email protected] 5 Charles University, Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Albertov 6, CZ–128 43, Prague 2 (Czech Republic) [email protected] 6 Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille, 19 rue de Bruxelles, 59000 Lille (France) [email protected] 7 Czech Geological Survey, Klárov 3, Praha 1, 118 21 (Czech Republic) marika.polechova@geology. cz 8 Krškova 784, Praha 5 Hlubočepy, 152 00 (Czech Republic) Published online in final form (pdf) on July 14, 2015 [Editor: Bruno GRANIER; language editor: John STARMER] 89 Carnets de Géologie [Notebooks on Geology] - vol. 15, n° 9 Introduction exchange of study material between these mu- seums). Some of BARRANDE's comparative Numerous Palaeozoic fossils of diverse inver- samples are thus housed in the collections of tebrate groups have been studied in the Bar- the Natural History Museum, London (part of randian area for more than 230 years (e.g., them purchased from the Czech National CHLUPÁČ, 1993; CHLUPÁČ et al., 1998b, and Museum in 1890-1900), in Geologische Bunde- BRUTHANSOVÁ et al., 2007). The oldest levels sanstalt, Wien, and in some other institutions. containing a rich skeletal marine fauna belong to the Cambrian Jince Formation, where the In 2010 and 2011, the programme PHC BAR- presence of abundant and well-preserved RANDE provided the chance to study the skeletal fossils had already been established in collection of Palaeozoic fossils stored at the the eighteenth century (e.g., BORN, 1772; Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille. During two KINSKÝ, 1775; see ŠNAJDR, 1958; CHLUPÁČ, 1999, visits at the University of Lille in 2010 and 2011 and BRUTHANSOVÁ et al., 2007). Lower Devonian we compiled a list of Cambrian fossils deposited trilobites and Silurian cephalopods, corals and in this museum and here we provided a brief brachiopods were also described during this report on this collection. century (e.g., BORN, 1772), while the discovery Geological setting of fossils in the Cambrian of the Skryje– Týřovice Basin and in the Ordovician the Prague In the Barrandian area, sediments contai- Basin followed several years later (see KRAFT & ning abundant Cambrian fossils are known in MAREK, 1992). two separate areas, the Skryje–Týřovice and Bohemian Cambrian to Devonian fossils, in the Příbram–Jince basins (Fig. 1.A). particular trilobites, agnostids and echinoderms, In the larger Příbram–Jince Basin, a suc- were intensively collected by professional cession of Early to Middle Cambrian siliciclastics geologists and amateur collectors already in the more than a two thousand metres thick is th 19 century (BUDIL & CUNDIFF, 2009) and are considered to have been deposited in lacustrine widely distributed in numerous European and fluvial environments. The exception is the collections (e.g., Geologische Bundesanstalt, Jince Formation, which contains common Wien; Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien; marine fossils and reaches a thickness of up to Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin; Natural History 450 m in the Litavka River Valley (HAVLÍČEK, Museum, London). Representative specimens 1971; GEYER et al., 2008). The biostratigraphy are dispersed in various collections all over the and distribution of fossils in the Příbram–Jince world, including Russia, Australia and the USA. Basin were recently reviewed by FATKA et al. Only part of that material was collected by the (2004b) and FATKA & SZABAD (2014). The occur- museum staff. Numerous specimens were rence of the paradoxidid trilobite Paradoxides provided by the Czech or other investigators (P.) paradoxissimus gracilis (BOECK, 1827) and th studying the Barrandian area during the 19 the agnostids Onymagnostus hybridus (BRØG- th and 20 centuries. A very large collection of GER, 1878) and Hypagnostus parvifrons Cambrian through Devonian fossils originating (LINNARSSON, 1869) in the Jince Formation from the Barrandian area is housed in the indicate an age corresponding to the middle collections of the Museum of Comparative and higher levels of the Baltic Paradoxides (P.) Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge paradoxissimus Superzone (AXHEIMER & AHLBERG, (Massachusetts, USA). This so called SCHÁRY 2003; HØYBERGET & BRUTON, 2008; WEIDNER & Collection is, in fact, the largest collection of NIELSEN, 2014; FATKA et al., 2014). fossils from the Barrandian area housed outside In the Skryje–Týřovice Basin, an about two of the Czech Republic. During his life, J.M. hundred metres thick succession of siliciclastics SCHÁRY, a private collector and beer baron, th of the richly fossiliferous middle Cambrian brought together the second largest 19 cen- Buchava Formation is known from the Berounka tury fossil collection in Bohemia (KŘÍŽ, 1999a, River Valley (HAVLÍČEK, 1971; GEYER et al., 1999b). The collection was purchased by Louis 2008). The lithostratigraphy of the succession AGASSIZ in 1882 from the heirs of J.M. SCHÁRY. was recently reviewed by FATKA et al. (2011b). After its arrival in the USA, the major part of The occurrence of Sao hirsuta BARRANDE, 1846, the collection was never systematized (BUDIL & and Brunswickia (Jincella) prantli (RŮŽIČKA, CUNDIFF, 2009), although BARRANDE's student 1944) suggest a correlation of the Buchava Otomar Pravoslav
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