B. N. Shurygin

Pliensbachian-Toarcian biotic turnover in north Siberia and the Arctic region

The biotic turnover in the Pliensbachian-Toarcian transition and changes in assemblages of bivalves, ostracodes, foraminifers, dinocysts, spores, and pollen are described. Only five of 24 bivalve genera and two of four ostracode genera cross the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary so that composition of genera and families to be entirely renewed at the base of the Harpoceras falciferum Zone. In the interval of three ammonite zones, diversity of foraminifers is reducing from 27 genera in the Amaltheus margaritatus Zone (upper Pliensbachian) to 17 and then to 15 genera in the Tiltoniceras antiquum (lower Toarcian) and Harpoceras falciferum zones, respectively. Single dinocysts of the Pliensbachian are replaced by their abundant specimens at the base of the Toarcian, and substantial changes in composition of palynological assemblages are simultaneously established. Factors responsible for “mass extinctions” of marine invertebrates are suggested to be the paleogeographic reorganization, anoxic events, eustatic sea-level changes, and climatic fluctuations. The biotic turnover in the Arctic region is interrelated mainly with thermal changes, which caused the southward displacements of taxa distribution areas during a rapid cooling and their gradual return to former habitat areas in the period of warming, rather than with extinction events.

Correlation of upper Bajocian-Bathonian zones in Siberia with the stage standard

The suggestions to transfer the Arcticoceras ishmae Zone from the middle to the lower Bathonian and the Arctocephalites arcticus Zone from the lower Bathonian to the upper Bajocian put forward by some researchers, are critically considered. These suggestions are based on paleontological records from the Sokur quarry near Saratov. Based on paleontological data from Siberia represented in a number of regional ammonite, belemnite, and retroceram zonations, we infer that the proposed zonal subdivision of the Jurassic in the Sokur quarry to be untrue and believe the revision of the correlation of the above-mentioned zones with the stage and zonal standard to be premature because of insufficient argumentation.

Paleontological and magnetostratigraphic data on Upper Cretaceous deposits from borehole no. 8 (Russkaya Polyana District, Southwestern Siberia)

This work presents results of complex research (palynological, macro- and microfaunistic, and paleomagnetic) of Upper Cretaceous deposits, opened by borehole no. 8 in the Russkaya Polyana District (the southern margin of the Omsk Depression, Southwestern Siberia). The paleontological data obtained allowed us to establish the age of deposits. Based on dinocysts, nannoplankton and spore-pollen complexes, the section of borehole no. 8 has been divided into Pokur, Kuznetsovo, Ipatovo, Slavgorod, and Gan’kino Formations. This work gives data on the composition of zonal palynomorphs, nannoplankton, and microfaunistic complexes. Based on the complex data obtained, the magnetostratigraphic section of Upper Cretaceous deposits has been developed. The section consists of three magnetozones: normal and two reversed polarity magnetozones. The Pokur, Kuznetsovo and Ipatovo Formation (Cenomanian-Santonian) belong to the long normal polarity magnetozone; the Slavgorod and Gan’kino Formations (Campanian-Maastrichtian), separated by a stratigraphic break, belong to reversed polarity magnetozones. The magnetostratigraphic section has been correlated with the general magnetostratigraphic and magnetochronological time scales.

A Regional Upper Cretaceous Magnetostratigraphic Section of Southern West Siberia (Omsk Depression)

1107 Construction of regional magnetostratigraphic sections and scales for different geological provinces of continents is an important element of investigations aimed at development of the standard geomagnetic scale, which is widely used in geochronological, strati� graphic, and geodynamic studies, as well as in theoret� ical and applied geophysics. Recent investigations have yielded extensive data on the paleomagnetic properties of Cretaceous sections in the former Soviet Union and around the world. At the same time, the progress in development of the Cretaceous paleomag� netic scale has been determined by the results of pale� omagnetic investigations in the most important geo� logical provinces of continents, such as, for example, the West Siberian Basin (WSB). Paleomagnetic data on Cretaceous sections are practically missing from this region, which represents one of the largest petroliferous basins in the world, except for some information in [1–3]. We have studied and analyzed paleomagnetic and paleontological data on Upper Cretaceous sections of the Omsk depression located in the southwestern mar� ginal part of West Siberia. The geological section of the region in question (Russkaya Polyana area) is represented by Mesozoic– Cenozoic marine and terrestrial sediments that form the platformal cover resting upon the eroded surface of

On position of the Praechetaites exoticus Zone in the Volgian Stage

The stratigraphic position of the Praechetaites exoticus Zone in the Volgian Stage is discussed in the context of published suggestions to place this unit in the middle Volgian Substage.

Sr isotope composition in belemnites from the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary section (Maurynya River, Western Siberia)

The belemnite Sr isotope characteristics obtained over an interval from the Upper Volgian Regional Substage to the lower part of the Ryazanian Regional Stage in the section on the Maurynya River (Western Siberia) fills a gap in the 87Sr/86Sr ocean water variation curve over the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary. The increase in the 87Sr/86Sr values from 0.707172 to 0.707242 revealed in the section coincides with a general rise in this ratio in the Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous ocean.

First findings of dinocysts in the upper Oligocene Turtas formation in Southern Tyumen oblast (West Siberia)

A new occurrence of dinocysts Pseudokomewuia in continental Cenosoic (Oligocene–Miocene) rocks of the West Siberian plain is identified. A complex of palynomorphs with dominant microphytoplankton (dinocysts) was found for the first time in the lacustrine-marsh sediments of the south of Tyumen oblast. The variable composition of the complex with Pseudokomewuia aff. laevigata He and Pseudokomewuia aff. granulata He species is traced upward through the section. The layers that correspond to the maximum abundance of Pseudokomewuia (akme) are distinguished and correlated with sections studied previously, which are located in the Barabinsk lithofacial region. Sediments with dinocysts are compared with sediments of the same age from North America, Northern Europe, and Southern China.

Middle Jurassic stratigraphy in the southwestern part of the Republic of Tatarstan

Data on the structure of the Middle Jurassic marine deposits in the vicinity of Ulyanovsk (sections of the Tarkhanovskaya Pristan-Dolinovka profile) are generalized with due regard for ammonites, bivalves, and microfossils occurring in sediments. Outcrops of the Tarkhanovskaya Pristan site represent the northernmost Bajocian section of the Russian Platform, where ammonites of Tethyan origin are identified. As is established, the pre-Callovian sand-clay sequence formerly attributed to the Bathonian includes the Garantiana beds of the upper Bajocian in its middle part. The multidisciplinary biostratigraphic-sedimentological research showed that downwarping of the Ulyanovsk-Saratov basin and origin of the Simbirsk Bay of the Tethyan marginal sea commenced in the Bajocian Age. The identified fossils of the upper Bajocian and lower and upper Callovian are cited in paleontological plates of this work.

Phylogeny and evolution of ontogeny of the family Oxytomidae Ichikawa, 1958 (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

We described ontogenies and reconstructed morphogeneses of hinges in some supraspecific taxa of the bivalve family Oxytomidae Ichikawa, 1958 from the Mesozoic of Russia. The phylogeny of the family is reconstructed using evolutionary and cladistic methods. The appearance of the endemic genus Arctotis Bodylevsky, 1960 in the epicontinental seas of Siberia can be explained in terms of gradual transformations of the ligament and byssal apparatus in the Northern Siberian members of Praemeleagrinella Lutikov et Shurygin, 2009 and Praearctotis Lutikov et Shurygin, 2009.

New data on the lithology of coastal facies of the Turtas formation (Upper Oligocene, Southwestern Siberia)

Peculiarities of the material composition and microstructure of coastal facies of Turtas Lake–Sea were studied in its marginal southwestern part for the first time. Interpretation of the lithological data showed that the deposits considered were formed under the conditions of a slightly saline basin and nearby full-flow river network. Based on the lithological, geochemical, and micropaleontological studies of clay–siliceous rocks of the Lower Turtas Formation (the boundary zone between the Tyumen and Sverdlovsk regions), additional support for the freshwater lake regime of the Late Oligocene Turtas basin is given.