Carboniferous graptolites (Hemichordata: Graptolithina) from the Dnipro-Donets Depression and Donets Basin, Ukraine

Authors

VITALY DERNOV, Department of Palaeontology and Stratigraphy of the Palaeozoic Sediments, Institute of Geological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, UkraineFollow

DOI

10.55730/1300-0985.1923

Abstract

Remains of the Carboniferous graptolites ?Ptiograptus sp. and Dictyonema sp. are described from the Donets Basin and the border zone of the Dnipro-Donets Depression and Donets Basin (eastern Ukraine). These graptolites were found in the Mezhova (Visean, Mississippian) and Avilovka (Kasimovian, Pennsylvanian) formations. Dictyonema sp. from the Avilovka Formation is probably the youngest dendroid graptolite to date. The analysis of geological data allowed to make a reasonable assumption about the Late Devonian rather than the Carboniferous age of the graptolite fauna from the Englewood Formation of South Dakota (USA) and the Tournaisian rather than the Cisuralian age of graptolites from Hainan Island in China.

Keywords

Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Ptiograptus, Dictyonema, Ukraine

First Page

457

Last Page

466

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Recommended Citation

DERNOV, VITALY (2024) "Carboniferous graptolites (Hemichordata: Graptolithina) from the Dnipro-Donets Depression and Donets Basin, Ukraine," Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences: Vol. 33: No. 4, Article 6. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0985.1923
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/vol33/iss4/6