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New Tithonian and Lower Berriasian aptychi of Štramberk Limestone from the Kotouč Quarry (Outer Western Carpathians, Czech Republic)

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A new collection of aptychi from the Štramberk Limestone in the Kotouč Quarry near Štramberk is presented in this paper as seven species (parataxonomic system) of ribbed calcareous valves. Their stratigraphic position is mostly supported by the occurrence of time-diagnostic ammonites. Four species are new: Beyrichilamellaptychus companyi sp. nov., B. hoedemaekeri sp. nov., B. jansseni sp. nov. and Thorolamellaptychus kleini sp. nov. The mentioned new species as well as B. studeri occur in the Upper Tithonian-Lower Berriasian interval, whereas Punctaptychus punctatus and Beyrichilamellaptychus beyrichi are well known by their wider stratigraphic range: Tithonian-Berriasian.

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We thank Horacio Parent (Universidad Nacional de Rosario) for review and linguistic help, and René Hoffmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Christian Klug (University of Zurich) and Mike Reich (SNSB-BSPG Munich) for reviews with constructive remarks and suggestions. We thank K. Mezihoráková (Ostrava) for taking the majority of photographs. We also express our thanks to the management of Kotouč Quarry for allowing access to their grounds. The present paper has been supported by the Project for Long-Term Strategic Development of the Institute of Geonics, Czech Academy of Sciences and project of Czech Science Foundation GACR 16–09979S.

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Vašíček, Z., Skupien, P. New Tithonian and Lower Berriasian aptychi of Štramberk Limestone from the Kotouč Quarry (Outer Western Carpathians, Czech Republic). PalZ 93, 37–48 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-018-0418-4

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