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Uppermost Triassic short-lived bioherm complexes in the fatric, western Carpathians

Spätobertriadische kurzlebige Bioherme in der Fatra, westliche Karpaten

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Investigation of paleoecological successions in the shallow-marine Fatra Formation of the Western Carpathians reveals their tendency to grow into bioherms. However, this development was repeatedly interrupted at various stages; biostromes were destroyed by fluctuations in bathymetry and salinity, storms, subaerial exposure etc. Fatra Formation communities consist of a relatively variable spectrum of organisms, including also little known borers, etc. Organism communities only rarely reached the early mature stages of organization. The short-lived, interrupted successions within the early bioherms of the Fatra Formation may serve as a useful model for a biohermal development within ecologically restricted environments different from the optimal environments of many other Upper Triassic reefs.

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Die palökologische Untersuchung der flachmarinen Organismen-Assoziationen der Fatra-Formation (oberste Trias) in den Westkarpaten zeigt, daß die Entwicklung von Biohermen wiederholt unterbrochen wurde, wobei der Aufbau von Biostromen durch Schwankungen in der Bathymetrie und Salinität, durch Stürme oder durch Trockenfallen gestört wurde. Die in den Korallenkalken der Fatra-Formation auftretenden Kommunitäten umfassen ein relativ weites Organismenspektrum, in dem auch bohrende Organismen vorkommen. Die Kommunitäten erreichen jedoch in ihrer Organisation nur selten ein Reifestadium. Die im allgemeinen nur kurzlebigen ökologischen Sukzessionen innerhalb der Fatra-Formation stellen ein brauchbares Modell einer Bioherm-Entwicklung innerhalb von flachmarinen Bereichen mit eingeschränkten Umweltbedingungen dar.

Die Abb. 3 und 4 zeigen die Lithologie und die ökologischen Sukzessionen sowie die durch unterschiedliche Assoziationen ausgedrückten Stabilisations- und Kolonisierungsstadien in der Entwicklung der benthonischen Kommunitäten in den Biostromen bzw. Biohermen. Abb. 5 zeigt die Assoziationsfolge in einer flachen Lagune.

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Michalik, J. Uppermost Triassic short-lived bioherm complexes in the fatric, western Carpathians. Facies 6, 129–145 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02536682

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