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THE ALPS AND NORTHERN CARPATHIANS
The Mariae Zone appears to be unrecorded from the whole area of the
Eastern Alps, Vienna Basin and Northern Carpathians.
CALLOVIAN
Callovian faunas are richly represented but inadequately figured and
scarcely enable conclusions to be drawn. Most appear to be Middle
Callovian. Peltoceras athleta may occur in the Tatra according to an old
record often repeated (Passendorfer, 1928) and Uhlig (1878; 1881a) figured
and described some other Callovian ammonites from the inner klippe chain.
In the Eastern Alps Callovian faunas are better preserved and more
abundant, but the Macrocephalus Zone so often quoted (e.g. Trauth,
1922, pp. 184, 222) appears to be misidentified; superb specimens of
Reineckeia tyrannus, R. greppini Oppel sp. (= oxyptycha) and Indosphinctes
patina figured by Neumayr (1870) from near Gosau in the Salzkammergut
belong to late-Lower or early-Middle Callovian.
In the eastern Carpathians, near the headwaters of the Theiss,
Lissoceras voultense (Op.) and five species of Phylloceras considered to be
Callovian have been figured as derived limestone casts from a volcanic
tuff in one of the klippes (Swiderski, 1938).
BATHONIAN
The Klaus Beds, red or brownish ammonite limestones passing locally
into marls with or without Posidonia (Zell Beds), widely developed in the
North-Eastern Alps, yield important Lower, Middle and Upper Bathonian
faunas, but they have not been differentiated (Jiissen, 1890; enlarged lists
in Trauth, 1922, pp. 191-5, 220 ff.). Typical Bathonian Phylloceratids and
Lytoceratids abound, with the principal Bathonian genera of central and
NW. Europe, including peculiar Perisphinctids, of which P. ybbsensis
Jiissen appears to be a Choffatia and P. seminudus Jiissen probably is a
Wagnericeras or Gracilisphinctes. Upper Bathonian is indicated by
Epistrenoceras contrarium (d'Orb.) and Lower Bathonian by Lissoceras
psilodiscus (Schloenb.) and Morphoceras multiforme. Trauth (1922, p.
195) considers that these beds extend from Upper Bajocian to Lower
Callovian, but allowing for a few obvious misidentifications in his list,
there is no evidence for anything but Bathonian.
In the Tatra Mountains there is the same mixture of Phylloceratids
and Lytoceratids with northern and western genera (Uhlig, 1897, p. 671;
Passendorfer, 1935, 1938). The indications of Lower Bathonian are
Lissoceras psilodiscus, Oppelia fallax Guer. sp. (1938, pi. xii, fig. 2),
Procerites spp., and a single fragment of Parkinsonia (1935, pi. iii, fig. 8).
Apart from these the assemblage is overwhelmingly Middle and Upper
Bathonian. Passendorfer figured Cadomites rectelobatus Hauer sp., a
small Tulites (Rugiferites) aff. angulicostatum Lissajous sp. (pi. iv, 3, 4),
Schwandorfia lucasi de Gross, sp., Sphaeroptychius buckmanni Lissajous
(or Schwandorfia sp. ?), Oecotraustes cf. nodifer Buckman, Wagnericeras
arbustigerum (d'Orb.), Choffatia aff. recuperoi (Gem.), and various
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