Kerocythere tuvalica

Forel, Marie-Béatrice, Kolar-Jurkovšek, Tea & Jurkovšek, Bogdan, 2020, Ostracods from the ‘ Raibl Beds’ (Carnian, Late Triassic) of Belca section in Karavanke Mountains, northwestern Slovenia, Geodiversitas 42 (21), pp. 377-407 : 391

Kerocythere tuvalica Kozur in Bunza & Kozur, 1971 ( Fig. 7N, O )

Kerocythere tuvalica Kozur in Bunza & Kozur, 1971: 51, 52, pl. 4, fig. 15. — Forel et al. 2019a: fig. 20C.

EXAMINED MATERIAL. — Four left valves, several fragments.

OCCURRENCE. — Tuvalian, Carnian, Late Triassic, Veszprem, Bakony, Hungary (Bunza & Kozur 1971); Tetraporobrachia haeckeli radiolarian Zone, Julian, Carnian, Late Triassic, Mersin Mélange, southern Turkey, Huğlu Tuffite (Forel et al. 2019a); Nicoraella ? budaensis conodont zone, late Julian-?earliest Tuvalian, Carnian, Late Triassic, samples BE17, 18, 21, 23/1 ( Fig. 3 ), Belca section, ‘Raibl Beds’, Karavanke Mountains, Slovenia (this work).

DISCUSSION

Kerocythere tuvalica Kozur in Bunza & Kozur, 1971 is present in samples BE17 to 23/1 of the Belca section, where it is rare ( Fig. 3 ).

Figures

FIG. 7. — Ostracods from the Belca section, Karavanke Mountains, northwestern Slovenia, Carnian, Late Triassic. All specimens are deposited in the micropalaeontology collections of the Geological Survey of Slovenia, under the numbers GeoZS6132 to GeoZS6239, preceded by sample number: A, Pontocypris? karavankensis Forel, n. sp., lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6174); B, C, Monoceratina sp.; B, lateral view of a right valve, BE21 (GeoZS6175); C, lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6176); D, Citrella? carniana Forel in Forel et al. 2019, lateral view of a right valve, BE2 (GeoZS6177); E, F, Judahella dizluense Kristan-Tollmann, 1980; E, lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6178); F, lateral view of a left valve, BE21 (GeoZS6179); G, Judahella cf. galli Kozur & Bolz in Bunza & Kozur, 1971, lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6180); H, Judahella sp., lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6181); I, Kerocythere cf. hartmanni Bolz & Kozur in Bunza & Kozur, 1971, lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6182); J, Kerocythere raibliana (Gümbel, 1869), lateral view of a left valve, BE18 (GeoZS6183); K-M, Kerocythere reticulata Kristan-Tollmann, 1972; K, lateral view of a left valve, BE18 (GeoZS6184); L, lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6185); M, lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6186); N, O, Kerocythere tuvalica Kozur, 1971; N, lateral view of a left valve, BE17 (GeoZS6187); O, lateral view of a left valve, BE21 (GeoZS6188); P, Q, Kerocythere sp. 1; P, lateral view of a right valve, BE21 (GeoZS6189); Q, lateral view of a right valve, BE21 (GeoZS6190); R, S, Simeonella daginikella Forel in Forel et al. 2019; R, lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6191); S, lateral view of a right valve, BE18 (GeoZS6192); T, U, Renngartenella sanctaecrucis Kristan-Tollmann in Kristan-Tollmann & Hamedani, 1973; T, lateral view of a right valve, A-1, BE2 (GeoZS6193); U, lateral view of a right valve, A-1, BE2 (GeoZS6194). Scale bars: 100 μm.

FIG. 3. — Distribution of ostracod species through the Belca section, Karavanke Mountains, northwestern Slovenia.