Abstract
The recent find of an ethmosphenoid of Glyptopomus bystrowi (Gross 1941), a “glyptopomid” tetrapodomorph, in the Ketleri Formation (Upper Famennian, Upper Devonian) in western Latvia induced the description of historical material from this site and almost coeval localities in Central Russia (Orel-Saburovo Beds, Plavskian Regional Stage). Detailed morphological studies allowed recognition of new characters which support the taxonomic position of this species. Three-dimensional preservation of isolated elements enable the description of internal cranial structures, like the posterodorsolateral expansion of prenasal pits, the passage of some nerves and blood vessels, unknown in the previously described species of this genus. Despite minor differences, the vertebrate assemblages from these areas fit within the placoderm B. ciecere Zone (VII), which corresponds to the ?Upper postera–Lower expansa conodont Zone interval. These assemblages are virtually the same in their composition, except that durophagous placoderms and dipnoans are present in the Central Russian sites, in contrast to the Latvian ones. This could be explained by more significant marine influences.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Ahlberg, P. E., Luksevics, E., & Lebedev, O. A. (1994). The first tetrapod finds from the Devonian (Upper Famennian) of Latvia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 343, 303–328.
Alekseev, A. S., Kononova, L. I., & Nikishin, A. M. (1996). The Devonian and Carboniferous of the Moscow syneclise (Russian Platform): stratigraphy and sea-level changes. Tectonophysics, 268, 149–168.
Aristov, V. A. (1988). Devonskiye konodonty Tsentral’nogo devonskogo polya [Devonian conodonts of the Central Devonian field] (p. 120). Moscow: Nauka (in Russian).
Blieck, A. (2010). Origine des tétrapodes, scénarios, théories erronées et évènements évolutifs. Annales Société Géologique du Nord, 17, 37–46.
Blieck, A., Clément, G., Blom, H., Lelièvre, H., Lukševičs, E., Streel, M., Thorez, J., Young, G.C. (2007). The biostratigraphical and palaeogeographical framework of the earliest diversification of tetrapods (Late Devonian). In Becker, R. T., Kirchgasser, W. T. (eds) Devonian Events and Correlations. Geological Society London Special Publications 278, 219–235.
Dan’shin, B. M. (1929). Geological structure of the Orel area within the limits of 45th map sheet. Preliminary report on the field research in 1925 and 1926. Izvestiya Geologicheskogo Komiteta, 48, 1–22 (in Russian).
Denayer, J., Prestianni, C., Gueriau, P., Olive, S., & Clément, G. (2016). Stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Late Famennian (Late Devonian) of Southern Belgium and characterization of the Strud locality. Geological Magazine, 153, 112–127.
Esin, D., Ginter, M., Ivanov, A., Lebedev, O., Luksevics, E., Avkhimovich, V., Golubtsov, V., Petukhova, L. (2000). Vertebrate correlation of the Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous on the East European Platform. In Blieck, A. & Turner, S. (eds) Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biochronology and Global Marine-Non-Marine Correlation. Final Report of IGCP 328 (1991–1996). (pp. 341–359). Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 223.
Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1852). Notice sur quelques poissons fossiles de la Russie. Bulletin de la Société Impérialesdes Naturalistes de Moscou, 25, 170–176.
Friedman, M., & Daeschler, E. B. (2006). Late Devonian (Famennian) lungfishes from the Catskill Formation of Pennsylvania, USA. Palaeontology, 49, 1167–1183.
Gross, W. (1933). Die Fische des baltischen Devons. Palaeontographica Abteilung A, 79, 1–74.
Gross, W. (1941). Über den Unterkiefer einiger devonischer Crossopterygier. Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 7, 1–51.
Gross, W. (1942). Die Fischfaunen des baltischen Devons und ihre biostratigraphische Bedeutung. Korrespondenzblatt des Naturforscher-Vereins zu Riga, 64, 373–436.
Jarvik, E. (1950). On some osteolepiform crossopterygians from the Upper Old Red sandstone of Scotland. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakad Handlingar, 2, 3–35.
Lebedev, O. A. (1995). Middle Famennian (Upper Devonian) chondrichthyans and sarcopterygians from Orel Region, Central Russia. In Lelièvre, H., Wenz, S., Blieck, A., Cloutier, R. (Eds.). Premiers vertébrés et vertébrés inferiéurs. Paris, 4–9 Septembre, 1995 (pp. 361–368). Geobios, Mémoire spécial 19.
Lebedev, O. A. (1995). Morphology of a new osteolepidid fish from Russia. In Arsenault, M., Lelièvre, H., Janvier, Ph. (eds). Études sur les Vertébrés inférieurs. VIIth International Symposium, Parc de Miguasha, Québec (pp. 287–341). Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, section C (Sciences de la Terre: Paléontologie, Minéralogie, Géologie), 17.
Lebedev, O. A., & Lukševičs, E. (1996). Attempted correlation of the upper part of the Famennian deposits of Baltic and Central Russia by vertebrates. In T. Meidla, I. Puura, J. Nemliher, A. Raukas, & L. Saarse (Eds.), The third Baltic stratigraphical conference. Abstracts and field guide (pp. 35–36). Tartu: Tartu University Press.
Lebedev, O. A., Lukševičs, E., & Zakharenko, G. V. (2010). Palaeozoogeographic connections of the Devonian vertebrate communities of the Baltica Province. Part II. Late Devonian. Palaeoworld, 19, 108–128.
Long, J., & Daeschler, E. B. (2013). First articulated phyllolepid placoderm from North America, with comments on phyllolepid systematics. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 162(3), 33–46.
Long, J. A., & Holland, T. (2008). A possible ‘elpistostegalid’ fish from the Devonian of Gondwana. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 120(1), 184–193.
Lukševičs, E. (1992). Palaeoichthyocenoses of the Famennian brackish seas of the Baltic area. In E. Mark-Kurik (Ed.), Fossil Fishes as Living Animals. Proceedings of the II International Colloquium on the study of the Palaeozoic fishes, Tallinn, 1989. Academia, 1 (pp. 273–280). Tallinn: Academy of Sciences of Estonia.
Lukševičs, E. (2001). Bothriolepid antiarchs (Vertebrata, Placodermi) from the Devonian of the north-western part of the East European Platform. Geodiversitas, 23(4), 489–609.
Lukševičs, E. (2015). The latest Famennian vertebrate and trace fossils from the Ketleri site, Latvia. STRATA, série 1, vol. 16. IGCP596–SDS Symposium (Brussels, September 2015), Abstracts, 81–82.
Lukševičs, E., Mešķis, S., Linde, K. (2015). Vēlā devona mugurkaulnieku atliekas un ihnofosīlijas no Ketleru atseguma [Late Devonian vertebrate remains and trace fossils from the Ketleri outcrop]. Latvijas Universitātes 73. zinātniskā konference. Geogrāfija. Ģeoloģija. Vides zinātne. Abstracts (pp. 206–210). Rīga: Latvijas Universitāte.
Lukševičs, E., Stinkulis, Ģ., Mūrnieks, A., & Popovs, K. (2012). Geological evolution of the Baltic Artesian Basin. In A. Dēliņa, A. Kalvāns, T. Saks, U. Bethers, & V. Vircavs (Eds.), Highlights of groundwater research in the Baltic artesian basin (pp. 7–52). Riga: University of Latvia.
Lukševičs, E., & Zupiņš, I. (2004). Sedimentology, fauna, and taphonomy of the Pavāri site, Late Devonian of Latvia. Acta Universitatis Latviensis Earth and Environmental Sciences, 679, 99–119.
Lyarskaya, L., & Savvaitova, L. (1974). Structure and fossil fish fauna of the Ketleri Formation of Latvia. In V. S. Sorokin (Ed.), Regional’naya geologiya Pribaltiki [Regional geology of Baltic] (pp. 90–106). Riga: Zinatne (in Russian).
Makhlaev, V. G. (1964). Usloviya osadkonakopleniya v verkhnefamenskom basseyne Russkoy platformy [Sedimentary conditions in the Upper Famennian basin of the Russian Platform]. Moscow: Nauka. 227 p. (in Russian).
Olive, S., Clément, G., Daeschler, E. B., & Dupret, V. (2015). Characterization of the placoderm (Gnathostomata) assemblage from the tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian). Palaeontology, 58, 981–1002.
Rodionova, G. D., Umnova, V. T., Kononova, L. I., Ovnatanova, N. S., Rzhonsnitskaya, M. A., & Fedorova, T. I. (1995). Devon Voronezhskoy anteklizy i Moscovskoy sineklizy [The Devonian of the Voronezh Anteclise and Moscow Syneclise]. Moscow: Rosgeolfond. 265 p. (in Russian).
Rzhonsnitskaya, M. A., & Kulikova, V. F. (Eds.). (1990). Resheniye mezhvedomstvennogo regional’nogo stratigraficheskogo soveshchaniya po srednemu i verkhnemu paleozoyu Russkoy platformy s regional’nymi stratigraficheskimi skhemami. Devonskaya sistema [Decisions of Interdepartmental Regional Stratigraphic Session (IRSS) on the Upper and Middle Palaeozoic of the Russian Platform with Regional Stratigraphic Charts (Leningrad, 1988). Devonian System]. Leningrad: VNIGRI. 60 p. (in Russian)>.
Savvaitova, L. S. (1977). Famen Pribaltiki [Famennian of the Baltic States]. Riga: Zinatne. 127 p. (in Russian).
Savvaitova, L. (1995). Ketleru atsegums [Ketleri outcrop]. In G. Kavacs (Ed.), Enciklopēdija Latvijas Daba (Vol. 2, p. 240). Rīga: Latvijas Enciklopēdija (in Latvian).
Thomson, K. S. (1976). The faunal relationships of rhipidistian fishes (Crossopterygii) from the Catskill (Upper Devonian) of Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology, 50, 1203–1208.
Trewin, N. H., & Thirlwall, M. F. (2002). The Old Red Sandstone. In N. H. Trewin (Ed.), The geology of Scotland (pp. 213–250). London: The Geological Society.
Upeniece, I. (2010). Latvijas vidējā un vēlā devona akantodes [Middle and Upper Devonian acanthodians from Latvia]. Latvijas Universitātes 68. zinātniskā konference. Geogrāfija. Ģeoloģija. Vides zinātne (pp. 380–383). Rīga: Latvijas Universitāte. Abstracts.
Vorobyeva, E. I. (1960). New data on the crossopterygian genus Panderichthys from the Devonian of the USSR. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 1, 87–96 (in Russian).
Vorobyeva, E. I. (1962). Rhizodont crossopterygians from the Main Devonian Field of the USSR. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 104, 1–108. in Russian.
Vorobyeva, E. I. (2004). Subclass Crossopterygii. In L. I. Novitskaya & O. B. Afanassieva (Eds.), Iskopayemiye pozvonochniye Rossii i sopredel’nykh stran. Beschelyustniye I drevniye ryby [Fossil Vertebrates of Russia and Adjacent Countries: Agnathans and Early Fishes] (pp. 272–372). GEOS: Moscow.
Vorobyeva, E. I., & Obruchev, D. V. (1964). Podklass Sarcopterygii. Myasistolopastniye. [Subclass Sarcopterygii. Sarcopterygians]. In D. V. Obruchev (Ed.), Osnovy paleontologii. Beschelyustniye, Ryby [Fundamentals of Palaeontology. Agnathans, Fishes] (pp. 238–266). Moskva: Nauka (in Russian).
Woodward, A. S. (1891). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Pt. 2. Elasmobranchii (Acanthodii), Holocephali, Ichthyodorulites, Ostracodermi, Dipnoi and Teleostomi (Crossopterygii and Chondrostean Actinopterygii) (pp. 1–567). London: Taylor & Francis.
Žeiba, S., & Savvaitova, L. (1981). Famennian Stage. In V. Sorokin (Ed.), Devon i karbon Pribaltiki [Devonian and Carboniferous of Peribaltics] (pp. 301–332). Riga: Zinatne. in Russian.
Ziegler, W., & Sandberg, C. A. (1990). The Late Devonian standard conodont zonation. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 121, 1–115.
Zupiņš, I. (2009). Osteolepiform sarcopterygian fishes (Sarcopterygii, Osteolepiformes) of the Main Devonian Field. Doctoral thesis. Riga: University of Latvia, 123 p.
Acknowledgements
Our thanks go to Ģirts Stinkulis (University of Latvia) for valuable discussions and advice in interpretation of sedimentary environment, and Kārlis Linde (University of Latvia) for fast and perfect preparation work on the Ketleri fossils. The anonymous referee and Gaël Clément (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) are thanked for scrupulous corrections and their valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper. We are grateful to all members of the Ketleri excavation team in 2014. Costs of the Ketleri excavations in 2014 were partly covered from the State base financing of scientific research for University of Latvia given to E.L. From the Russian side this work was supported by the programme of fundamental scientific research of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences No. 30 “Organic World and Planetary Processes Evolution,” project “Renovation of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Vertebrate communities after Ecological Crises.” This is a contribution to the IGCP 596 project “Climate change and Biodiversity patterns in the Mid-Palaeozoic.”
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Ethics declarations
Conflict of interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Additional information
This article is a contribution to the special issue “Climate change and biodiversity patterns in the mid-Palaeozoic”
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Lebedev, O.A., Lukševičs, E. Glyptopomus bystrowi (Gross, 1941), an “osteolepidid” tetrapodomorph from the Upper Famennian (Upper Devonian) of Latvia and Central Russia. Palaeobio Palaeoenv 97, 615–632 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-016-0249-9
Received:
Revised:
Accepted:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-016-0249-9