Ichthyofauna from the Lower Devonian (Lohkovsky) deposits of the Podlasie-Brest Depression (from the results of the Rataichitsy 12 k borehole section investigation)

The paper presents the results of a palaeoichthyological study of the Lochkovian age rocks exposed in the Rataichitsy 12 k borehole within the territory of the Podlasie-Brest Depression in Belarus. To complete the information presented in the papers the author gives besides his personal data the summarized evidences of all the reliable findings of the Lochkovian fish fauna in the territory of the above-named tectonic structure known from the literature. A brief taphonomic description of the Early Devonian ichthyofauna remains is presented. A vertebrate assemblage established in this borehole is compared with the coeval ichthyological assemblages known in the territory of Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States and Spitsbergen. The data of the Lochkovian ichthyofauna obtained supplement the information on its geographical distribution and systematic composition within the Republic of Belarus .

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