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A total of 158 species of Bryozoa were found and indentified from the sediments of 34 sections, all of Langhian (Early Badenian) age, from the Czech Republic. Bryozoan species belonging to the suborder Ascophora LEVINSEN, 1909 are described in detail and illustrated. Among them are 12 new species Umbonula granulata sp. n., Ferganula rousinovensis sp. n., Microporella berningi sp. n. Cribellopora hluchovensis sp. n., Cribellopora trasoni sp. n., Buffonellaria kuklinskii sp. n., Buffonellaria holubicensis sp. n., Reteporella hluchovensis sp. n., Reteporella vladkae sp. n., Reteporella ruzenkae sp. n, Rhynchozoon oslavanensis sp. n., Rhynchozoon krouzkovensis sp. n. The type of environment which may have lead to the mass occurrence of Bryozoa is proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A total of 158 species of Bryozoa have been found and indentified in sediments from 34 sections, all of Langhian (Early Badenian) age, from the Czech Republic. All the studied sections where bryozoans were found have been described. All identified species belonging to the orders Cyclostomata, Ctenostomata and "Anascan" Cheilostomata (Suborders Malacostega Levinsen, 1902 and Flustrina Smiti, 1868) are described and illustared in detail. Among them are four new species: Frondipora parva sp.n., Copidozouin natalae sp. n., Cupuladria baluki sp.n. and Calpensia rebeshovensis sp.n. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A collection of freshwater bryozoans from Danau Sentarum National Park (Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia) included statoblasts on a piece of styrofoam and a colony inside a plastic bottle. The colony was taxonomically undeterminable; the statoblasts were assigned to the following species: Hyalinella lendenfeldi, Plumatella javanica, Plumatella vorstmani and two unidentified plumatellid species. The present study provided first records of these species from Borneo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Faunal and floral fossil remains of Late Cretaceous – Early Palaeocene age were recovered from flint pebbles from glaciofluvial gravel sediments in the Fukov area, northern Bohemia, the Czech Republic. Sedimentology of these sediments is discussed. Suggestions are made regarding the origin of the flints and their possible sources. The recovered taphocoenosis consists of one fossil plant taxon, nineteen bryozoans, three molluscs, one sabellid, and seven echinoderms. This type of flint and fossil fauna may indicate a pioneer character of the association found in glaciofluvial sediments near Fukov, perhaps an unconsolidated environment on a continental shelf margin which is characteristic for North-western European chalk. The occurrence of plant fossil in this type of deep shelf sediment is unique and suggests the existence of some land mass at a relatively close distance to the place of deposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]