Upper Devonian/Lower Carboniferous calcareous algae from the Fore-Carpathian Depression

Abstract

The calcareous algae occurring in deposits at the boundary between the Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous which has been reached in boreholes located .in the Fore-Carpathian Depression (Southern Poland), are represented by twenty species ,(including six new ones) of Rhodophyta, Chlorophyta, Charophyta and Porostromata. These algae throve in a shallow-water marine basin, probably in a back-reef environment. As appears from their succession in profiles, these algae may be useful for stratigraphic correlation of the late-Paleozoic deposits of the Fore-Carpathian region.