Elementy aparatu z Płucek koło Łagowa, wczesny famen (Dzik 2006).

Rekonstrukcja składu aparatu (Dzik 2006)

Diagnoza

From its abcestor, K. ultima, differs in more elongated P₁ elements and M elements usually with relatively wide angle between processes, from successors of various lineages in underived, lambda-shaped M elements.

Porównanie

A variable species, both in respect to the outline of platform in P₁ elements, which ranges from that typical to K. ultima to that of early species of Palmatolepis, but also in the prominence of the cusp and curvature of P₂ elements. The mean value of elongation index of the P₁ elements is distinctly higher than in K. ultima, remaining elements of the apparatus being hardly distinguishable. In fact, to distinguish these chronospecies a large sample is needed and single elements are of little taxonomic value. Some late populations show robust denticulation of ramiform elements and widely angular processes of the M element

Autekologia

Poorly recognised; apparently an open-sea species.

Występowanie geograficzne

Płucki, Kadzielnia, Kostomłoty, Śluchowice, Psie Górki, Dalnia, Górno, Karczówka, Kowala, and Wietrznia in the Holy Cross Mts.; borehole near Siewierz in Upper Silesia

Zasięg czasowy

Zone of its own. 

Materiały muzealne

ZPAL: 422 specimens.

Literatura

Dzik, J. 2006. The Famennian „Golden Age” of conodonts and ammonoids in the Polish part of the Variscan sea. Palaeontologia Polonica 63, 1-359.

Nehring, M. 1967. Konodonty dolnego famenu z profilu Winowno w okolicach Siewierza (Wyżyna Śląsko−Krakowska). Biuletyn Instytutu Geologicznego 209, 113–169.

Szulczewski, M. 1971.  Upper Devonian conodonts, stratigraphy and facies development in the Holy Cross Mts. Acta Geologica Polonica 21, 1-129.

Wolska, Z. 1967. Górno-dewońskie konodonty z południowo-zachodniego regionu Gór Świętokrzyskich. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 12, 363-435.