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And Their Pa Laeoe Co Logical Significance LATE CRETACEOUS SILICEOUS SPONGES FROM THE MIDDLE VISTULA RIVER VALLEY (CENTRAL POLAND) AND THEIR PA LAEOE CO LOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE Ewa ŚWIERCZEWSKA-GŁADYSZ Geological Department o f the Łódź University, Narutowicza 88, 90-139 Łódź, Poland; e-mail: [email protected] Świerczewska-Gładysz, E., 2006. Late Cretaceous siliceous sponges from the Middle Vistula River Valley (Central Poland) and their palaeoecological significance. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 76: 227-296. Abstract: Siliceous sponges are extremely abundant in the Upper Campanian-Maastrichtian opokas and marls of the Middle Vis-ula River VaUey, situated in the western edge of the Lublin Basin, part of the Cre-aceous German-Polish Basin. This is also the only one area in Poland where strata bearing the Late Maastrichtian sponges are exposed. The presented paper is a taxonomic revision of sponges coUected from this region. Based both on existing and newly collected material comprising ca. 1750 specimens, 51 species have been described, including 18 belonging to the Hexactinosida, 15 - to the Lychniscosida and 18 - to Demospongiae. Among them, 28 have not been so far described from Poland. One new genus Varioporospongia, assigned to the family Ventriculitidae Smith and two new species Varioporospongia dariae sp. n. and Aphrocallistes calciformis sp. n. have been described. Comparison of sponge fauna from the area of Podilia, Crimea, Chernihov, and Donbas regions, as well as literature data point to the occurrence of species common in the analysed area and to the basins of Eastern and Western Europe. This in turn indicates good connections between particular basins of the European epicontinental sea dumg the Campanian-Maastrichtian. Analysis of the taxonomic composition of the Middle Vistula assem­ blage suggests that the occurring sponge fauna is transitional between the faunas of Eastern and Western Europe, what may be linked with the central location of the Lublin Basin in the European epicontinental sea. The gradual upward decrease of taxonomic diversity of the Hexactinosida and Lychniscosida in the studied succession points to gradual basin shallowing, what is consistent with the global regressive trend by the end of the Cretaceous. The domination of the Hexactinellida over the lithistids in terms of diversity and abundance in the entire section allows us to estimate the maximum depth of the Late Campanian basin as 200-250 m and to constrain the minimum depth during the latest Maastrichtian as about 100 m. Key words: Sponges, Hexactinosida, Lychniscosida, lithistids, taxonomy, palaeoecology, Upper Cretaceous, Cen tral Po land. Manuscript received 17 May 2005, accepted 19 October 2006 INTRODUCTION Rich sponge fauna with a siHceous skeleton ex-sted ern Europe. The presence of sponges in the Upper Crefa- during the Late Cretaceous in the European continental sea ceous deposits has also been noted from Central and Eastern (Wiedenmayer, 1980; Pisera, 1999). The conditions favour­ Europe. However, sponges in these localities are not known ing development of sponges at that time were linked with in detail due to their poor state of preservation, which is re­ the common marine transgressions which began in the Al- lated to the domination of carbonate-siliceous and chalk fa­ bian (Hancock & Kauffman, 1979). The acme of sponge de­ cies over limestones. velopment occurred in the Campanian, what corresponded The Middle V is ^ a River VaUey (Cen-ral Po-and) is to the global maximum of eustatic rise (Hancock, 1975; one of the are as in Pol and, where the Late Cret ac eous Hancock & Kauffman, 1979; Hancock, 1989). sponges are very abundant. For the first time the presence of Despite large abundance and high taxonomic variabil­ sponges in this area was noted by Pusch (1837). Later, they ity, larger accumu- ations of bodUy preserved sponges are were also mentioned by Sujkowski (1931), Pożaryski not common in the Upper Cretaceous strata. Their distribu­ (1938), and Putzer (1942). Early Cretaceous sponges, com­ tion is restricted to some areas and s^^graphic toei'vals monly occurring in the Albian strata were studied by Hurce­ only (cf. Hancock, 1976). The largest number of sites with wicz (1988). Sponges be-ong to one of the most common rich and well recognised sponge fauna is known from West­ fossil groups also in the Campanian and Maastrichtian Fig. 1. A. Location of studied area on the general map of Poiand; B. Geoiogical sketch - map of the Middle Vistula River Valiey (adopted from: Pożaryski, 1938 and Błaszkiewicz, 1980) strata. Their taxonomic recognition, however, is poor. Only Thus, this region is unique for tracing the changes which single specimens have been described from these deposits took place in the sponge assemblages in the Late Cretaceous (Hurcewicz, 1966, 1968). up to the Creiaceous/Palaeogene boundary, and reierring The Campanian and Maasirichtian sponges from the these changes to the bathymetry of the basin by the end on Middle Vistula River Valley also have a certain palaeoeco- the Cretaceous. logical significance, because they occur in the beds in situ. The pres ented herein taxonomic res earch of sponges Additionally, apart from this area, no outcrops with sponges from the Campanian and Maasirichtian deposits from the of the Maastrichtian age are known from the area of Poland. Middle Vistula River Valley supplements the existing data on the fossil assemblages from this area. It also provides Machakki & Waiaszctyk, 1987; Machakki, 1998). The new facts on the occurrence of sponge fauna in the Late opoka is directly overlain by glauconitic sandstone contain­ Cretaceous in the central part of the Central European Ba­ ing numerous phosphatised Cretaceous and Palaeogene fos­ sin, what in turn aliows broadening the palaeogeographic sils. This bed is considered either the uppermost Cretaceous ranges of some species earlier known from Western Europe (Kongiel, 1935, 1958; Pożaryski, 1938; Putzer, 1942; Rad­ only. wański, 1985; Abdel-Gawad, 1986; Machalski & Wai asz- czyk, 1987) or Palaeogene in age (Pożaryska, 1965, 1967; Krach, 1974, 1981; Błaszkiewicz, 1966, 1979, 1980; Peryt, GEO LOGI CAL SET TING 1980; Hansen et al., 1989; Machalski, 1998; Żarski et al., 1998; Świerczewska-Gładysz, 2000; Świerczewska-Gła- The Cretaceous rocks comprising the Albian through dysz & Olszewska-Nejbert, 2006). The bed passes into ga- Maastrichtian strata are exposed in the western part of the izes with limestones, the so-called siwak, presently assigned Lublin Basin, in the Middle Vistula River Valiey between either to the Montian (Krach, 1968, 1971, 1974; Pożaryska, Annopol and Puławy (Fig. 1A, B). This region was a part of 1965; Liszkowski, 1970) or Danian (Peryt, 1980; Hansen et the German-Polish Basin and in the Late Cretaceous was al., 1989; Machalski, 1998, Żarski et al., 1998). located in the central part of a vast shelf sea in the area of Beside sponges, the most abundant macrofauna include Central Europe. bivalves and snails (Krach, 1931; Pożaryski, 1938; Putzer, The study area comprises the northern part of the Mid­ 1942; Pożaryska & Pożaryski, 1951; Pugaczewska, 1977; dle Vistula River gorge. The exposures (13 sites), in which Abdel-Gawad, 1986; 1990). Of stratigraphic significance the sponge fauna have been coll ected, are situated in the are beiemnites (Nowak, 1913, 1917; Skołozdrówna, 1932; Vistula River Valley along its both sides, at a distance of ca. Kongiel & Matwiejówna, 1937; Kongiel, 1962) and am­ 50 km (Fig. 1B). The Cretaceous deposits occurring in the monites (Łopuski, 1911-12; Nowak, 1913, 1917; Błasz­ study area display poor bedding and dip very gently (ca. 3°) kiewicz, 1966, 1979, 1980; Machalski & Jagt, 1998). Addi­ to the NE and NNE (cf. Pożaryski, 1938). tionally, nautiioids (Łopuski, 1911-1912; Kongiel & Mat­ Detpite numerous papers (Łopuski, 1911-1912; Ma­ wiejówna, 1937; Putzer, 1942), brachiopods (Pożaryska & zurek, 1915; Pożaryski, 1938; Kongiel, 1958, 1962; Poża­ Pożaryski, 1951; Popiel-Barczyk, 1968), corals (Putzer, ryska, 1965, 1967; Błaszkiewicz, 1966, 1980; Gaździcka, 1942), echinoids (Kongiel, 1950; Mączyńska, 1972), and 1978; Peryt, 1980; Pożaryska & Pugaczewska, 1981; bryozoans (Maryańska, 1969) are also present. Abdel-Gawad, 1986; Hansen et al., 1989; Marcinowski & Radwański, 1996; Machalski, 1996; Machalski & Jagt, 1998), the detailed correlation of particular lithological suc­ MA TE RIAL cessions has not bee est abl ished yet. This results from the rather uniform character of the Campanian and Maastrich- The studied material consists of about 1,750 specimens tian sediments. These exposures, except for Nasiłów and (collection of UL XX). The specimens have been collected Bochotnica, lack characteristic correlation beds or horizons. in 13 exposures within the Vistula River Valiey: Ciszyca In this paper, the biostratigraphic zones based on cephalo- Kolonia, Ciszyca Górna, Piotrawin, Solec, Dziurków, pods (Błaszkiewicz, 1980) have been used (Fig. 2). Kłudzie, Dobre, Podgórz, Męćmierz, Kazimi erz - two ob­ The oldest studied deposits are the Upper Campanian servation points, Janowiec, Nasiłów, and Bochotnica - opokas, exposed in the quarries of Ciszyca Kolonia, Ci- three observation points (Figs 1B, 2). Part of the specimens szyca Górna, and Piotrawin (Nostoceras pozaryskii Zone) have been coll ected directly from the exposure walls, ena­ (Fig. 2). The Campanian deposits pass conformably into bling observation of the preservation stage of sponges in macroscopically indistinguishable opokas of the Lower particular beds and their
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