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Geo log i cal Quar terly, 2012, 56 (2): 237–248DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7306/gq.1018

New finds of Rusophycus from the lower Cam brianOciesęki Sand stone For ma tion (Holy Cross Moun tains, Po land)

Michał STACHACZ

Stachacz M. (2012) – New finds of Rusophycus from the lower Cam brian Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion (Holy Cross Moun tains, Po -land). Geol. Quart., 56 (2): 237–248, doi: 10.7306/gq.1018

The Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion rep re sents the Holmia-Schmidtiellus and the Protolenus-Issafeniella zones. Seven ichnospecies ofRusophycus, in clud ing Rusophycus exsilius isp. nov, are rec og nized in this for ma tion. More over, Rusophycus ispp. A, B, C are rec og -nized. The di ag no ses for R. dispar, R. crebrus and R. magnus have been emended and the strati graphic range of R. versans has been ex -tended. The pres ence of Rusophycus dispar may sug gest a palaeozoogeographical con nec tion be tween the Małopolska Block, theBaltica palaeocontinent and the Laurentia palaeocontinent.

Michał Stachacz, In sti tute of Geo log i cal Sci ences, Jagiellonian Uni ver sity, Oleandry 2a, 30-063 Kraków, Po land, e-mail:[email protected] (re ceived: June 9, 2011; ac cepted: Jan u ary 11, 2012; first pub lished on line: May 7, 2012).

Key words: Holy Cross Moun tains, Ociesęki, lower Cam brian, trace fos sils, Rusophycus.

INTRODUCTION

The Cam brian sys tem in the Holy Cross Moun tains is com -posed of a succession of clastic de pos its, with a to tal thick nessin ex cess of 2500 m (e.g., Orłowski, 1975, 1988, 1992, 1997;Kowalczewski et al., 2006).

The stud ied area is a part of the south ern block (Kielce Unit)of the Holy Cross Moun tains, which is the north ern part of alarger tec tonic block called the Małopolska Block (e.g., Buła,2000; Cocks and Torsvik, 2005). The Ociesęki Sand stone For -ma tion was de pos ited in a ma rine ba sin, which ac cord ing to cur -rent views was sit u ated close to the Baltica palaeocontinent (e.g., Cocks, 2002; Cocks and Torsvik, 2005, 2006).

The trilobites of the Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion havebeen the top ics of sev eral pa pers (Samsonowicz, 1959;Orłowski, 1974, 1983, 1985, 1987; Żylińska and Masiak,2007). Trace fos sils from this for ma tion were de scribed byOrłowski et al. (1970), Pacześna (1985), Orłowski (1989,1992) and Orłowski and Żylińska (2002). The cited pa perscon tain sys tem atic de scrip tions and data on the strati graphicranges of these trace fos sils. The pur pose of this study is topres ent new ma te rial of the ichnogenus Rusophycus from thelower Cam brian of the Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion crop -ping out in the vi cin ity of Ociesęki, and to crit i cally eval u atethe ichnotaxonomy of Rusophycus in the Ociesęki Sand stoneFor ma tion. The spec i mens col lected are housed in the In sti tute

of Geo log i cal Sci ences of the Jagiellonian Uni ver sity inKraków. Sev eral spec i mens from the Prof. Orłowski col lec tion(War saw Uni ver sity) have been also ana lysed.

OUTLINE OF STRATIGRAPHY

The lower Cam brian Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion in theKielce Unit of the Holy Cross Moun tains con sists ofsiliciclastic de pos its of poorly con strained thick ness. Ac cord -ing to Mizerski et al. (1986), its thick ness ex ceeds 1200 m inthe Ociesęki and the Zamczysko ranges, in the stratotype areaof this for ma tion.

The lower part of the Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion con -tains the trilobites Holmia marginata Orłowski, 1974;H. glabra Orłowski, 1974; Kjerulfia orcina Orłowski, 1974;K. orienta Orłowski, 1974; Schmidtiellus panovi (Samso -nowicz, 1959); S. nodosus Orłowski, 1985; Strenuellapolonica Czarnocki, 1927; S. sandomirensis Orłowski, 1985and S. zbelutkae Orłowski, 1985, which in di cate the Holmia -Schmidtiellus Zone (Orłowski, 1974, 1985). The up per part ofthe for ma tion con tains the trilobites Kingaspidoides santa -crucensis (Samsonowicz, 1959) and Issafeniella orlowinensis(Samsonowicz, 1959), which point to the late early Cam brianProtolenus-Issafeniella Zone (Orłowski, 1985; Mizerski et al.,1986; Geyer, 1990; Żylińska and Masiak, 2007).

LOCALITIES INVESTIGATED

The out crops stud ied are lo cated in the Ociesęki,Zamczysko and the Orłowińskie ranges in the cen tral part ofthe Kielce Unit. The ma te rial de scribed has been col lected atsix ex po sures on the Sterczyna, Igrzyczna, Wysokówka hillsand in the Koziel vil lage (Fig. 1).

Most of the de scribed spec i mens of Rusophycus come from the lower part of the Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion, whichcon sists mainly of fine-grained, yel low or gray, stronglybioturbated, thin- to me dium-bed ded graywakes and quartzarenites. The larg est num ber of spec i mens of Rusophycus hasbeen found in the small pits on the east ern slope of SterczynaHill (GPS co or di nates: N 50°43.24.7’; E 020°58.44.2’) and in a small quarry near the peak of this hill (GPS co or di nates:N 50°43.45.2’; E 020°58.15.5’). A smaller num ber of spec i -

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Fig. 1. Lo cal ity maps

A – lo cal ity and sim pli fied ge ol ogy map of the Pa leo zoic block of the Holy Cross Moun tains;the ge ol ogy is ac cord ing to Orłowski (1975) and Mizerski et al. (1991);

B – top o graphic map of the Ociesęki area show ing lo cal i ties

mens has been col lected in a pit at the north ern foot ofIgrzyczna Hill (GPS co or di nates: N 50°44.39.0’;E 020°57.07.4’) and in a nat u ral ex po sure in the ra vine on thesouth ern slope of this hill (GPS co or di nates: N 50°44.13.9’;E 020°56.44.0’). The up per part of the Ociesęki Sand stoneFor ma tion in the vi cin ity of Ociesęki con sists of mainly hard,fine-grained, white or gray, me dium-bed ded quartz arenites,with vary ing de gree of bioturbation. Four spec i mens ofRusophycus has been found here on Wysokówka Hill and onlyone spec i men in a small pit in Koziel vil lage (GPS co or di nates:N 50°45.14.7’; E 020°58.32.5’) and on the slopes ofWysokówka Hill.

SYSTEMATIC PART

Ichnogenus Rusophycus Hall, 1852

D i a g n o s i s. – Short, bilobate, rarely multilobatetraces. Lobes pre dom i nantly bi lat er ally sym met ri cal. Con vexforms (hypichnia) with a dis tinct me dian fur row; con caveforms (epichnia) with me dian ridge. Out line ovate to cof -fee-bean-shaped; sculp tured with oblique to trans verse or lon -gi tu di nal striae in var i ous ar range ments, or al most smooth (af -ter Schlirf and Uchman in: Schlirf et al., 2001).

D i s c u s s i o n. – Seilacher (1970) in cluded short ovalforms, cof fee-bean-shaped and long, rib bon-like traces in theichnogenus Cruziana d’Orbigny, 1842. How ever, most au -thors (e.g., Keighley and Pickerill, 1996; Schlirf and Uchmanin: Schlirf et al., 2001) re tain the ichnogenus Rusophycus Hall,1852. Ac cord ing to Keighley and Pickerill (1996), theichnogenus Cruziana d’Orbigny, 1842 in cludes forms inwhich the length to width ra tio is more than 2:1. This cri te rion,dis tin guish ing be tween Cruziana and Rusophycus, is fol lowedin this pa per. Rusophycus is com monly in ter preted as the rest -ing or bur row ing trace of ar thro pods (e.g., Seilacher, 2007).The Pa leo zoic spec i mens of Rusophycus are in ter preted al -most ex clu sively as tri lo bite traces (e.g., Osgood, 1970;Rindsberg, 1994). The post-Pa leo zoic occurences ofRusophycus are usu ally in ter preted as notostracan traces (e.g.,Schlirf and Uchman in: Schlirf et al., 2001).

Rusophycus dispar Linnarsson, 1869(Fig. 2A–D)

*1869, Rhysophycus dispar n. sp. – Linnarsson, p. 353.1871, Cruziana dispar Linnarsson – Linnarsson, p. 14, pl.3.17–19.nom. nud. 1970, “Cruziana rusoformis isp. nov.” – Orłowski et al., s. 348, pl. 1a–c. v 1970, Cruziana sp. – Orłowski et al., s. 348, pl. 1d.1974, Cruziana rusoformis Orłowski, Radwański andRoniewicz, 1970 – Orłowski, p. 7, pl. 6.1–2.

1988, Cruziana cf. dispar Linnarsson, 1869 – Bergström andPeel, p. 50, fig. 8.1990, Rusophycus dispar Linnarsson, 1869 – Pickerill andPeel, p. 30, fig. 12C, D.v 1992, Cruziana dispar Linnarsson, 1871 – Orłowski, p. 18,figs. 3, 4.1–3.v 1992, Cruziana rusoformis Orłowski, Radwański andRoniewicz, 1970 – Orłowski, p. 19, fig. 5.1–3.v non 1992, Cruziana dispar Linnarsson, 1871 – Orłowski,p. 20, fig. 4.4 [re tained in Cruziana herein].1997, Rusophycus dispar Linnarsson, 1869 – Jensen, p. 81,figs. 54A, C, 55A, C.partim 1997, Cruziana rusoformis Orłowski, 1992 – Jensen,p. 41, figs. 28B, 29, 30.1999, Cruziana rusoformis Orłowski, Radwański andRoniewicz, 1970 – Mizerski et al., p. 360, pl. 1.3, 7.2008, Cruziana rusoformis Orłowski, 1992 – Pacześna andŻylińska, p. 10, fig. 11.

M a t e r i a l. – Ten spec i mens (INGUJ214P/Mr1–6,Mr35–36, Mr57, Mr/90), and a few spec i mens in the col lec tionof Prof. Orłowski (War saw Uni ver sity).

E m e n d e d d i a g n o s i s. – High, oval, sym met richypichnion with a nar row, more or less dis tinct me dian fur row,which sep a rates two lobes. The lobes are cov ered by dis tinctV-shaped ridges, which meet in the me dian fur row at an an gleof 60–180°. The width of the ridges in the front and rear of thelobes can be dif fer ent. The V-shaped pat terns formed by theridges are usu ally di rected in op po site di rec tions at the frontand rear of the traces.

D e s c r i p t i o n. – Oval or slightly elon gate, bilobatecon vex hypichnion, 70–120 mm long, 40–60 mm wide,20–40 mm high, with out dis tinct mar gins. On the sur face of thelobes, dis tinct, reg u lar ridges (in ter preted as moulds of scratchmarks), 1–3 mm wide, 3–4 mm apart, which meet in the me dian fur row at an an gle of 60–100° and form a V-shaped pat tern,ori ented in one di rec tion or in op po site di rec tions in the frontand rear parts of the oval. Gen er ally, the ridges are thick, show -ing dif fer ent widths in the front and rear parts of the lobes.Some of the spec i mens dis play thin ner, sec ond-or der ridges onthe mar gin of the hypichnion (e.g., Fig. 2B).

R e m a r k s. – The orig i nal di ag no sis of C. dispar pro -posed by Seilacher (1970) reads:

“Deep rest ing tracks or nests. The proverse front leg mark -ings with im pres sions of at least two small side claws on ex -posed front sides. Rear leg mark ings retroverse and finer, butal ways pre served ex cept in rare procline fur rows”. This di ag -no sis has been emended here, be cause it was based on be hav -iour of the tri lo bite not on mor phol ogy, con trary to the rec om -men da tion of Bertling et al. (2006) ac cepted herein.

The spec i mens de scribed dif fer in length-to-width ra tios,width of the ridges and the var ied an gle be tween the meet ingridges. The ridges are moulds of scratch marks of the ar thro podtracemaker.

Ac cord ing to Seilacher (1970), this ichnospecies typ i callydis plays op po sitely-di rected V-shaped casts of scratch marks.In deed some spec i mens of R. dispar show op po sitely di rectedV-shaped casts of scratch marks in the front and rear parts ofthe hypichnion while oth ers dis play only uni di rec tional casts(Fig. 2A, B, D). Also, Pickerill and Peel (1990) in cluded in

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Fig. 2A–D – Rusophycus dispar Linnarsson, 1869; E, F – Rusophycus cf. avalonensis Crimes and An der son, 1985;lower Cam brian, Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone

All spec i mens are pre served as pos i tive hyporeliefs on the bases on thin beds of quartz arenite; A – INGUJ214P/Mr35, B –INGUJ214P/Mr1 (ss – sec ond or der scratches, Rc – Rusophycus carbonarius), C – INGUJ214P/Mr2, D – INGUJ214P/Mr4,E – INGUJ214P/IgS1, F – INGUJ214P/Mr14; A–D, F – east ern slope of Sterczyna Hill, E – south ern slope of Igrzyczna Hill

R. dispar spec i mens with out ob verse scratches. Ac cord ing tothese cited au thors, Seilacher’s (1970) pre sen ta tion of R. dispar is highly sche matic, with out con sid er ation of the more typ i calpreservational vari ants of the ichnospecies. Linnarsson (1871)de scribed R. dispar un der the ichnogenus Cruziana d’Orbigny, 1842, but only spec i mens in which the length to width ra tio isgreater than 2 might be placed in Cruziana (see Keighley andPickerill, 1996). Orłowski (1992) in cluded slightly elon gatespec i mens of R. dispar in Cruziana d’Orbigny, 1842, but ac -cord ing to the cri te ria for sep a ra tion adopted here the shortspec i mens should be placed in the ichnogenus RusophycusHall, 1852. Only the spec i men in his fig. 4.4, is dis tinctly elon -gate and should be placed in Cruziana. Cruziana rusoformisde scribed by Orłowski (1992) is re garded as a syn onym ofR. dispar be cause its dif fer ences in mor phol ogy are not clearlyvis i ble (see Pickerill and Peel, 1990). Orłowski men tioned thatC. rusoformis dif fers from R. dispar by smaller size, but hismea sure ments sug gest oth er wise. Some of the spec i mens ofC. rusoformis rep re sent an in ter me di ate form be tween the typ i -cal Rusophycus (cubichnion) and the typ i cal Cruziana(repichnion). Ac cord ing to Keighley and Pickerill (1996) mostof the spec i mens pre vi ously de scribed as C. rusoformis(Orłowski et al., 1970; Orłowski, 1974; Orłowski, 1992;

Jensen, 1997) can be placed in Rusophycus. The spec i men de -scribed as a topotype of C. rusoformis (Pacześna and Żylińska,2008, fig. 11) is a typ i cal short cubichnion and rep re sentsR. dispar.

Orłowski (1992) re garded C. dispar as tri lo bite trace fos -sils, how ever, Bergström (1973) con sid ered a non-tri lo bite,aglaspidid or i gin.

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -

stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, Sterczyna Hill(this pa per), Igrzyczna and Malkowska hills (Orłowski, 1992),Dal las Bugt For ma tion, north-west Green land (Bergström andPeel, 1988), Norretorp For ma tion, Scania, Swe den(Bergström, 1973), Bas tion For ma tion, Green land (Pickerilland Peel, 1990), Mickwitzia Sand stone Mem ber, Swe den(Linnarsson, 1871; Jensen, 1997).

Rusophycus cf. avalonensis Crimes and An der son, 1985(Fig. 2E, F)

Syn onyms for R. avalonensis

* 1985, Rusophycus avalonensis isp. nov. – Crimes and An der -son, p. 331, figs. 5.2–3, 12.2.? 1992, Cruziana regularis isp. nov. – Orłowski, p. 19, figs.6.1–2, 4.1999, Rusophycus avalonensis – MacNaughton and Narbonne, p. 107, fig. 9A.v 2004, Rusophycus ?avalonensis Crimes and An der son, 1985

– ErdoÈan et al., p. 352, fig. 8A.? 2008, Cruziana regularis Orłowski, 1992 isp. – Pacześna and Żylińska, p. 10, fig. 10 [re garded as Rusophycus herein].

M a t e r i a l. – Four spec i mens (INGUJ214P/Mr/13–15,/IgS6).

D i a g n o s i s. – For R. avalonensis. Rusophycus con sist -ing of fine scratch marks in bun dles of five or more, ar rangedobliquely or trans versely to the me dian line (af ter Crimes andAn der son, 1985).

D e s c r i p t i o n. – Low, bilobate, oval hypichnionabout 50 mm long, 55 mm wide, 5–10 mm high, pre served incon vex semirelief with in dis tinct mar gins. The lobes are sep a -rated by a shal low in dis tinct fur row. The sur face of the lobes iscov ered by a few (8–9) thick slightly curved ridges, which areal most per pen dic u lar to the me dian fur row. The ridges are up to 4 mm thick, 3–4 mm apart. Some ridges split into a few thin nerridges in the prox im ity of the mar gin of the hypichnion.

R e m a r k s. – The spec i mens ana lysed are sim i lar toRusophycus avalonensis Crimes and An der son, 1985, be causeof the over all shape and the di vided ridges but the ridges(mould of scratch marks) are not ar ranged in bun dles.

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, east ern slope ofSterczyna Hill, south ern slope of Igrzyczna Hill.

Rusophycus crebrus (Orłowski, 1992) nomen correctum(Fig. 3A, B)

*v 1992, Rusophycus crebus ichnosp. nov. – Orłowski, p. 28,figs. 11, 12.6.v 2008, Rusophycus crebrus Orłowski – Pacześna andŻylińska, p. 13, fig. 17.

M a t e r i a l. – Four col lected spec i mens(INGUJ214P/Mr10–11, St121, St123), four spec i mens in thecol lec tion of Prof. Orłowski (War saw Uni ver sity).

E m e n d e d d i a g n o s i s. – Hypichnial con vex sym -met ri cal, cof fee-bean-shaped semirelief, which con sists of twolobes sep a rated by a shal low fur row. The lobes are cov ered bylon gi tu di nal, del i cate sets of ridges. Two se ries of paired, rect -an gu lar lobes or lon gi tu di nal, del i cate ridges can be pre servedclose to the me dian fur row. The mar gin of the hypichnion canbe ser rated.

D e s c r i p t i o n. – A cof fee-bean-shaped hypichnion,with con vex semirelief, which con sists of two sym met ri cal,curved lobes sep a rated by a shal low fur row. The en tire sur faceof the lobes is cov ered by sets of del i cate ridges, which are lessthan 1 mm wide. In the in ter nal part of the lobes, near the fur -row, small, lon gi tu di nal ridges stand 1–1.5 mm above the lobesur face. In the me dian fur row there may be two se ries ofsubrectangular sec ond-or der, paired lobes (in ter preted asmoulds of coxa) sep a rated by a very nar row and shal low fur -row. One of the spec i mens (INGUJ214P/Mr10; Fig. 3A) shows a ser rated mar gin. The larg est spec i men is about 120 mm long,about 70 mm wide, about 50 mm high. The me dian fur row is20–25 mm wide. The lon gest flank of the subrectangular lobesis about 8 mm long, the serrations on the mar gin are 10 mmlong. The small est spec i men is about 50 mm long and about45 mm wide.

R e m a r k s. – In the orig i nal de scrip tion (Orłowski,1992) this ichnospecies was de scribed as R. crebus, but the cor -rect name should be crebrus (from Latin crebro – re peat edly,


of ten, one af ter the other). An in for mal nomen correctum wasgiven by Orłowski and Żylińska (2002, p. 136 and 137) andPacześna and Żylińska (2008, p. 13). The orig i nal di ag no sis(Orłowski, 1992, p. 28) reads: “Rest ing trace, reg u lar, com -pletely cov ered by del i cate, lon gi tu di nal scratches, pro ducedby exopodite”. This di ag no sis is emended herein, be cause theear lier di ag no sis (Orłowski, 1992) con tains el e ments of in ter -pre ta tion of tri lo bite be hav iour in stead of de scrip tion of mor -phol ogy.

The most im por tant fea tures of Rusophycus crebrusOrłowski, 1992, are the dis tinct lobes en tirely cov ered by del i -cate, lon gi tu di nal ridges and the ab sence of trans verse scratchmarks (see Orłowski, 1992). The holotype de scribed byOrłowski (1992) lacks some de tails vis i ble in the spec i mens de -scribed herein, i.e. im prints of coxa and pleura. The ab sence ofthese de tails in the spec i mens in the Orłowski col lec tion may be the re sult of shal lower bur row ing. Some of the spec i mens ana -lysed herein are very sim i lar to Rusophycus polonicus


Fig. 3A, B – Rusophycus crebrus Orłowski, 1992, lower Cam brian, Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion,Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, east ern slope of Sterczyna Hill; C, D – Rusophycus magnus (Orłowski, 1992),

lower Cam brian, Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion, Protolenus-Issafeniella Zone

Pos i tive hyporeliefs on the bases of thin beds of quartz arenite; A – INGUJ214P/Mr10,B – INGUJ214P/Mr11 (co – moulds of coxae, pl – moulds of pleurae);C – INGUJ214P/W8, Wysokówka Hill, D – INGUJ214P/K2, Koziel

Orłowski, Radwański and Roniewicz, 1970. How ever,R. crebrus form much more reg u lar, cof fee-bean-shapedshapes, hav ing the nar row est fur row in a more cen tral part thanR. polonicus and hav ing moulds of lon gi tu di nal scratch marks,which are ab sent in R. polonicus (see Orłowski et al., 1971).

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone: Rybnica Hill(Orłowski, 1992), Sterczyna Hill (this pa per).

Rusophycus magnus (Orłowski, 1992)(Fig. 3C, D)

*v 1992, Cruziana magna isp. nov. – Orłowski, p. 22, fig. 6.4,p. 25, fig. 8.v 2008, Cruziana magna Orłowski, 1992 – Pacześna andŻylińska, p. 9, fig. 9 [with com ment that in cluded inRusophycus].

M a t e r i a l. – Five col lected spec i mens(INGUJ214P/W8–10, I/W13, /K2), two spec i mens in the col -lec tion of Prof. Orłowski (War saw Uni ver sity).

E m e n d e d d i a g n o s i s. – Large Rusophycus cov -ered by thick ridges per pen dic u lar to the me dian fur row sep a -rat ing the lobes. The ridges can be split into bun dles of thin nerridges close to the bur row mar gin.

D e s c r i p t i o n. – Elon gate, bilobate, con vex semi -relief with an in dis tinct me dian fur row. The sur face of the lobes is cov ered by dis tinct, thick ridges per pen dic u lar or al most per -pen dic u lar to the fur row. The trace fos sil is about 150 mm longand about 100 mm wide. The ridges are 2–4 mm wide and high, 2–4 mm apart. Some of the spec i mens are pre served only asfrag ments of sim ple lobes (e.g., INGUJ214P/K2; Fig. 3D).

R e m a r k s. – The orig i nal di ag no sis (Orłowski, 1992,p. 25) reads: “Large traces with sin gle, thick scratches as so ci -ated on the lat eral sides with bun dles of up to five del i catescratches”. The di ag no sis is emended herein be cause the orig i -nal one (Orłowski, 1992) is based on the be hav iour of thetracemaker (tri lo bite), and not solely on the mor phol ogy of thetrace fos sil.

Orłowski (1992) in cluded this ichnospecies in Cruzianad’Orbigny, 1842, but its morphometric pa ram e ters (seeKeighley and Pickerill, 1996) do not fit this ichnogenus.

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Protolenus-Issafeniella Zone, Koziel (thispa per) and Wysokówka Hill (Orłowski, 1992; this pa per).

Rusophycus carbonarius Dawson, 1864(Fig. 4A–E)

* 1864, Rusophycus carbonarius – Dawson, p. 364, fig. 3.2002, Rusophycus carbonarius (Dawson, 1864) – Orłowskiand Żylińska, p. 144, fig 6a.More syn onyms in Schlirf et al. (2001).

M a t e r i a l. – Sev en teen sand stone slabs con tain ingtwenty five spec i mens (INGUJ214P/Ig113–114, Ig130,Mr17–29, Mr56, Mr64).

D i a g n o s i s. – Small, cof fee-bean-shaped form withtrans verse to oblique, gen er ally fine striations. Lobes are par al -lel or slightly di ver gent (af ter Schlirf and Uchman in: Schlirf etal., 2001).

D e s c r i p t i o n. – Con vex, cof fee-bean-shaped hypi -chnia, 4–6 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, which con sist of two sym -met ri cal lobes sep a rated by a dis tinct fur row. The lobes are par -al lel or di ver gent. The sur face of the lobes is smooth. In somespec i mens, the me dian fur row does not run for the full length of the hypichnion (INGUJ214P/Mr21; Fig. 4A) re sult ing in ahorse shoe-like shape.

R e m a r k s. – The spec i mens ana lysed do not dis play thestripes on the sur face of lobes, per pen dic u lar or oblique to thefur row, which is typ i cal of R. carbonarius (see Schlirf et al.,2001). How ever, ac cord ing to Keighley and Pickerill (1996),the spec i mens ana lysed with smooth lobes are con sid eredtaphonomic vari ants of R. carbonarius. This ichnospecies canbe pro duced by dif fer ent ar thro pods. The early Cam brianR. carbonarius herein de scribed was pos si bly pro duced bysmall or ju ve nile trilobites. Sim i lar, non-trilobitic R. carbo -narius are known also from Tri as sic de pos its (see Schlirf et al.,2001 and ref er ences therein).

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, Sterczyna andIgrzyczna hills (Orłowski and Żylińska, 2002; this pa per). Up -per Tri as sic: Hassberge For ma tion, Vetter (Schlirf et al., 2001).

Rusophycus versans Schlirf and Uchman, 2001(Fig. 4F)

* 2001, Rusophycus versans isp. nov. – Schlirf and Uchman in:Schlirf et al., p. 80, fig. 9, 10A–E.2008, Rusophycus versans Schlirf et al., 2001 – Pol lard et al.,p. 402, fig. 4A–D.2008, Rusophycus versans Schlirf and Uchman, 2001 –Machalski and Sadlok, p. 73 [not fig ured].2010, Rusophycus versans Schlirf and Uchman, 2001 – Sadlokand Machalski, p. 119, pl. 1.1–6.

M a t e r i a l. – One spec i men (INGUJ214P/Mr26).D i a g n o s i s. – Clus ters of short, poorly sculp tured,

bilobate, cof fee-bean-shaped, hypichnial mounds, dis play ingad di tional, more or less fan-like or ir reg u larly ar ranged lat erallobes (af ter Schlirf et al., 2001).

D e s c r i p t i o n. – Con vex hypichnion, 20 mm long,con sist ing of a few (about 7) cof fee-bean-shaped el e ments dis -placed with re gard to each other and partly over lap ping, re sult -ing in a mor phol ogy sim i lar to Rusophycus carbonariusDawson, 1864. These el e ments con tain more or less dis tinctlobes, which are sep a rated by a fur row. Three of the el e mentsare ar ranged in a curved rib bon, other el e ments form a fan-likear ranged ro sette. The sim ple el e ments are about 4 mm long andabout 2 mm wide.


R e m a r k s. – The spec i men ana lysed is sim i lar toRusophycus versans Schlirf et al., 2001, which is in ter preted asa struc ture formed dur ing ro tary mo tion of the tracemaker, en -abling it to ex ploit the sed i ment more ef fi ciently (Schlirf et al.,2001). The type ma te rial of this spe cies was prob a bly made bynotostracan crus ta ceans (Schlirf et al., 2001), whereas theCam brian spec i mens were prob a bly pro duced by trilobites(Sadlok and Machalski, 2010). The pres ence of R. versans inthe lower Cam brian of the Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion ex -tends the strati graphi cal range of this ichnospecies, which hadbeen de scribed so far from the up per Cam brian (Machalski andSadlok, 2008; Sadlok and Machalski, 2010), Car bon if er ous(Pol lard et al., 2008) and Up per Tri as sic (Schlirf et al., 2001).

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, Sterczyna Hill(this pa per). Up per Cam brian: Wiśniówka Sand stone For ma -

tion (Machalski and Sadlok, 2008; Sadlok and Machalski,2010). Up per Car bon if er ous: Lancashire, Great Brit ain (Pol -lard et al., 2008). Up per Tri as sic: Hassberge For ma tion, Vetter(Schlirf et al., 2001).

Rusophycus exsilius isp. nov.(Fig. 5A–D)

? 1963, hi ero glyph of a tri lo bite trace of a change of in its rest -ing place – Radwański and Roniewicz, p. 264, pl. 3.2.Derivatio nominis Exsilio (Latin) – to bounce, to jump. Types holotype: INGUJ214P/Mr32, paratypes:INGUJ214P/Mr30, Mr31, Mr33.Lo cus typicus: east ern slope of Sterczyna Hill.


Fig. 4A–E – Rusophycus carbonarius Dawson, 1864; F – Rusophycus versans Schlirf and Uchman, 2001;lower Cam brian, Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone

Pos i tive hyporeliefs on the bases of thin beds of quartz arenite; A – INGUJ214P/Mr21, B – INGUJ214P/Mr19,C – INGUJ214P/Mr17, D – INGUJ214P/Mr18, E – INGUJ214P/Ig113, F – UJ215P/Mr26;

A–D, F – east ern slope of Sterczyna Hill, E – north ern slope of Igrzyczna Hill

Stra tum typicum: Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion. D i a g n o s i s. – Small, con vex, dis tinctly bilobate

Rusophycus, which oc cur in clus ters of a few spec i mens form -ing lon gi tu di nal, dis con tin u ous, straight or curved rib bons.

D e s c r i p t i o n. – Clus ters of 3 to 6 bilobate, sym met -ri cal hypichnia, which con sist of two lobes sep a rated by a dis -tinct me dian fur row. The sur face of the lobes is smooth or

slightly ir reg u lar, with out ridges. In di vid ual hypichnia are8–15 mm long, 9–12 mm wide; the me dian fur row is 1–3 mmwide. The lobes are 3–4 mm high above the bed ding sur face.In di vid ual hypichnia are dis placed with re spect to each other,lo cally partly over lap ping. Some of them form rib bons, which re sem ble dis con tin u ous Cruziana trails (Fig. 5C).


Fig. 5A–D – Rusophycus exsilius isp. nov., pos i tive hyporeliefs on thin, bioturbated beds of graywakes;lower Cam brian, Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, east ern slope of Sterczyna Hill

A – INGUJ214P/Mr31, B – INGUJ214P/Mr32 (holotype), C – INGUJ214P/Mr33 (Di – cf. Diplichnites isp.), D – INGUJ214P/Mr30

R e m a r k s. – The spec i mens ana lysed rep re sent a newichnospecies, which ex presses a dif fer ent be hav iour of thetracemaker to that of most Rusophycus ichnospecies. The newtrace fos sil is not a typ i cal rest ing trace (cubichnion), but a se -ries of rest ing traces of a tri lo bite pen e trat ing the sandy sed i -ment and lo cally the un der ly ing silty layer re peat edly along itspath. Some of the spec i mens ana lysed, which form a rib -bon-like se ries of cubichnia, are sim i lar to Cruzianad’Orbigny, 1842, but dif fer in that it does not form a con tin u ous trail. Very sim i lar spec i mens, from the up per Cam brian of theHoly Cross Moun tains have been il lus trated by Radwański andRoniewicz (1963). The clus ters of Rusophycus moyensisMángano, Buatois and MuÔiz Guinea, 2002, from the SantaRosita For ma tion (Ar gen tina) (Mángano et al., 2002, 2005)show a sim i lar be hav iour of the trace-maker. One sand stoneslab con tain ing Raaschichnus gundersoni Hesselbo, 1988 il -lus trated by Hesselbo (1988, p. 140, fig 1D) shows sim i lar be -hav iour of the tracemaker. Nev er the less, Raaschichnus dif fersfrom Rusophycus by dif fer ent shape of lobes.

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, east ern slope ofSterczyna Hill (this pa per). Prob a bly the up per Cam brian:Wiśniówka Sand stone For ma tion, Wiśniówka Duża quarry(Radwański and Roniewicz, 1963).

Rusophycus isp. A(Fig. 6A)

M a t e r i a l. – One spec i men (INGUJ214P/St120).D e s c r i p t i o n. – Oval, bilobate hypichnion, about

80 mm long, 55 mm wide, pre served in con vex semirelief,which con sists of two sym met ri cal lobes, sep a rated by a dis -tinct me dian fur row. The fur row does not sep a rate the lobes forthe en tire length; the lobes are linked at one end to form ahorse shoe-shaped struc ture. The sur face of the lobes is smooth

or cov ered by nar row ridges. In the rear part of the trace, a cy -lin dri cal struc ture about 10 mm in di am e ter is pres ent. The me -dian fur row is about 10 mm wide; the ridges on the lobes are2–3 mm wide, The lobes are about 30 mm high.

R e m a r k s. – This spec i men has a cy lin dri cal struc ture in the rear part of trace, which may be a print of re pro duc tivestruc tures and sug gest be hav iour of trilobites de pos it ing eggsbe low the sur face of muddy sed i ment.

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone: Sterczyna Hill(this pa per).

Rusophycus isp. B(Fig. 6B)

M a t e r i a l. – One spec i men (INGUJ214P/IgS7).D e s c r i p t i o n. – An oval, bilobate hypichnion about

30 mm long, 22 mm wide, pre served in con vex semirelief,which con sists of two sym met ri cal lobes sep a rated by a dis tinctme dian fur row. The sur face of the lobes is rough. A cy lin dri cal, elon gate struc ture per pen dic u lar or oblique to bed ding pen e -trates the Rusophycus.

R e m a r k s. – Spec i men dis play a cy lin dri cal struc ture,which is in ter preted as in ter secting with Planolites.

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, Igrzyczna Hill(this pa per).

Rusophycus isp. C(Fig. 6C)

M a t e r i a l. – Nine spec i mens (INGUJ214P/St136,Ig117–118, Mr12, Mr30–33).


Fig. 6A–C – Rusophycus ispp., lower Cam brian, Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone

Pos i tive hyporeliefs on thin beds of quartz arenite; A – Rusophycus isp. A (INGUJ214P/St120, rs – ?re pro duc tive struc tureim print) Sterczyna Hill; B – Rusophycus isp. B (INGUJ214P/IgS7, Pl – ?Planolites) south ern slope of Igrzyczna Hill;

C – Rusophycus isp. C (INGUJ214P/Mr12, Pl – ?Planolites isp. cross ing the Rusophycus) east ern slope of Sterczyna Hill

D e s c r i p t i o n. – An oval, bilobate hypichnion40–100 mm long, 20–60 mm wide, 10–40 mm high, pre servedin a con vex semirelief, which con sists of two sym met ri cal oral most sym met ri cal lobes sep a rated by a more or less dis tinctme dian fur row. The sur face of the lobes is usu ally rough. Insome of the spec i mens, a cy lin dri cal struc ture per pen dic u lar tobed ding in ter sects the trace fos sil.

R e m a r k s. – Some spec i mens, which dis play the cy lin -dri cal struc ture (in ter sec tion with spec i mens of Planolites) canbe in ter preted as traces of tri lo bite pre da tion on a worm-like or -gan ism (see Jensen, 1997). Nev er the less, some spec i mens of?Planolites cut the Rusophycus and must be youn ger (Fig. 6C).

O c c u r r e n c e. – Lower Cam brian: Ociesęki Sand -stone For ma tion, Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone, Sterczyna andIgrzyczna hills (this pa per).

DISCUSSION

The Rusophycus ichnospecies from the lower Cam brianOciesęki Sand stone For ma tion are quite di verse in com par i sonto other Cam brian for ma tions of the Holy Cross Moun tains(see Orłowski, 1992; Orłowski and Żylińska, 2002). It is sur -pris ing that Cruziana is al most to tally ab sent. Only one spec i -men il lus trated by Orłowski (1992, p. 20, fig. 4.4) can be as -cribed to this ichnogenus. Other spec i mens de scribed by thisau thor as Cruziana dispar and C. rusoformis, ac cord ing to thecri te ria by Keighley and Pickerill (1996), should be in cluded inRusophycus. The spec i men de scribed by Orłowski as Cruziana isp. (Orłowski, 1992, p. 25, figs. 6.3 and 9) in fact rep re sentsthe ichnogenus Psammichnites Torell, 1870 (prob a bly P. gigasTorell, 1870 = Arcuatichnus wimani Kowalski, 1978) (seeKowalski, 1978, p. 339, pl. 1.1–3; Seilacher, 2008, p. 44, 45).

The pres ence of Rusophycus dispar in the Holy CrossMoun tains, which has been also de scribed from lo cal i ties inScan di na via (see Linnarsson, 1871; Bergström, 1973;Bergström and Peel, 1988; Jensen, 1997) and Green land(Pickerill and Peel, 1990) may con firm a palaeozoo geogra -phical con nec tion be tween the Małopolska Block, the Balticapalaeocontinent and the Laurentia palaeocontinent dur ing theearly Cam brian. Biogeography of the Cam brian of the HolyCross Moun tains, so far based on the trilobites is not, how ever,

an un am big u ous in di ca tor. Trilobites from the lower Cam brianOciesęki For ma tion clearly point to con nec tions with the Bal tic prov ince but mid dle Cam brian trilobites are dom i nated by spe -cies typ i cal of Gond wana (see Orłowski, 1985; Żylińska,2002a, b; Nawrocki, 2006; Nawrocki et al., 2007), how ever,trilobites from the up per Cam brian of the Łysogóry Block(north ern part of the Holy Cross Mts.) have mixed Avalonian- Bal tic char ac ter (Żylińska 2002a). Palaeozoogeographical con -nec tion be tween the Małopolska Block, Baltica and Laurentiapalaeocontinent is pos si ble, be cause these con ti nents were very close to each other (e.g., Torsvik and Cocks, 2005).

CONCLUSIONS

1. Seven ichnospecies of Rusophycus have been rec og nized in the Ociesęki Sand stone For ma tion: six in the lower part(Holmia-Schmidtiellus Zone) and one in the up per part(Protolenus-Issafeniella Zone) of this for ma tion. More over,Rusophycus ispp. A, B, C are de scribed.

2. One new ichnospecies of Rusophycus, R. exsilius isp.nov. has been de scribed.

3. The di ver sity of Rusophycus in the Ociesęki Sand stoneFor ma tion is much higher than in the other Cam brian for ma -tions in the Holy Cross Moun tains.

4. The pres ence of Rusophycus dispar in the Holy CrossMoun tains, also known in Scan di na via and Green land, sug -gests a palaeozoogeographical con nec tion be tween theMałopolska Mas sif, the Baltica palaeocontinent and theLaurentia palaeocontinent.

Ac knowl edg ments. I would like to thank prof. A. Uchman(In sti tute of Geo log i cal Sci ences UJ) for his help dur ing prep a -ra tion of the manu script. Prof. S. Orłowski (In sti tute of Ge ol -ogy UW) is ac knowl edged for dis cus sion and ac cess to his col -lec tion of trace fos sils for study. I am deeply grate ful to prof.J. Pacześna (Pol ish Geo log i cal In sti tute – Na tional Re searchIn sti tute, Warszawa) and doc. S. Jensen (Área de Paleonto -logia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura,Badajoz, Spain) for com ments, advices and con struc tive crit i -cism. The study was sup ported by the Pol ish Min is try of Sci -ence and Higher Ed u ca tion (grant no. NN 307 102935).

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