Novy vyskyt pribojove facie u Ronova nad Doubravou (kolinsky litofacialni vyvoj, ceska kridova panev)

A rocky-coast facies in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (BCB) are developed mainly in the Kolín lithofacial area at its southern margin. Ronov – the newly described locality – is situated south of Ronov nad Doubravou, on the right bank of the Doubrava river near the St. Kříž church. The outcrop located in a ditch was partially excavated in order to study the character and extent of Cretaceous sediments (Beds No. 1–3; see Figs. 1–3).

Bed 1 is composed of red clay with yellow streaks, representing lateritically weathered crystalline bedrock – likely amphibolites and garnet migmatites (Fig. 2). Overlying bed 2 consists of yellow to gray-green clay; in the lower part, the layer contains fragments of fossils that occur in the overlying layer, and sandy “intraclasts” interpreted as bioturbations. The most conspicuous bed 3 (25 cm in thickness) is represented by calcareous, coarse-grained sandstone to conglomerate with glauconite and abundant fauna (mainly fragmentary; Figs. 4 and 5). This type of rock in the wider area (between Ronov nad Doubravou and Žleby) was reported by Sejček (1982) who described three occurrences as scree or fragments on the surface but has not found any rock outcrops in situ despite excavation work.

The individual layers were sampled for the study of foraminifers, calcareous nannoplankton and macrofauna. Shells of Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum, which are always disarticulated, often fragmented and bioturbated (Entobia exogyrarum), represent the most prominent element of macrofauna. In addition, Rastellum diluvianum and Amphidonte halitoidea, unspecified large colonies of bryozoans, spines of the echinoids Cidaris vesiculosa, complete shells of brachiopods Cyclothyris aff. difformis and tiny teeth of sharks Otodus rarely occur.

Calcareous nannofossils were found only in bed 3. Isolated small, mostly difficult to identify fragments belong to long-range stratigraphic taxa (Fig. 6) and may indicate an interval from the uppermost Cenomanian to the lowermost Turonian. Similar poor nannofossil assemblages are known also in other rocky-coast facies of the BCB.

The refining indicator of stratigraphic classification is thus macrofauna. Similar communities with Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum and echinoderms are known from Upper Cenomanian and Lower Turonian in the area of Heřmanův Městec, Čáslav and especially Kutná Hora. However, brachiopods Cyclothyris aff. difformis and oyster Amphidonte halitoidea recorded from Ronov are typical representatives of Upper Cenomanian “rocky-coast” faunas, whereas typically Lower Turonian elements such as the oyster Exogyra reticulata, Exogyra sigmoidea, or the spines of the Cidaris sorigneti are missing in the studied community.

The study of macrofossil and nannofossil communities shows that the Upper Cretaceous rocks, represented by the calcareous glauconitic sandstones to conglomerates in Ronov locality, are most likely of the Upper Cenomanian age and represent the Korycany Member of the Peruc-Korycany Formation.

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