prof. RNDr. Martin Košťák, Ph.D.

Phone: +420 221951456
Office: P10 B
E-mail: kostaknatur.cuni.cz

Professional Experience

Education

Research Interests

• Jurassic, Cretaceous and Cenozoic cephalopods, especially coleoids from the Boreal and Tethyan Realms. Bio- and evento-stratigraphy, palaeobiogeography, palaeoecology (including stable isotope data), systematics and taxonomy, comparative morphology, evolution.
• Integrated stratigraphy of the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary interval in the Tethyan Realm (Spain, Slovakia, Czech Republic) and Boreal Realm (Nordvik, Laptev Sea, N Siberia).
• Palaeoecology, biostratigraphy and eventostratigraphy of the Mid-European Cretaceous basins (Bohemian-Saxonian Cretaceous Basin)

Teaching

• Systematic Palaeontology
• Historic and Stratigraphic Geology
• Mesozoic Palaeobiogeography
• Palaeontologic Methods
• General Palaeontology

Selected Publications

Wiese, F., Čech, S., Walaszczyk, I., Košťák, M. 2020 (in press): An upper Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) inoceramid zonation and a round-the-world trip with Mytiloides incertus (Jimbo, 1894). Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften - German Journal of Geology. DOI: 10.1127/zdgg/2020/0225.

Košťák, M., Kohout, O., Mazuch, M., Čech, S. 2020: An unusual occurrence of vascoceratid ammonites in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic) marks the lower Turonian boundary between the Boreal and Tethyan realms in central Europe. Cretaceous Research 108: 104338. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104338.

Košťák, M., Sklenář, J., Mazuch, M., Čech, S. 2019: Taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of the ammonite Schloenbachia Neumayr, 1875 from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin: taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution. Fossil Imprint 75(1), 64-69.

Svobodová, A, Kočí, T., Kočová Veselská, M., Ferré, B., Košťák, M., Čech, S., Chroustová, M. 2019: New biostratigraphic evidence (calcareous nannofossils, ostracods, foraminifers, ammonites, inoceramids) on the Middle Coniacian in the eastern Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Geological Quarterly 63(3), 586-602. DOI: 10.7306/gq.1489. 

Vaňková, L. Elbra, T., Pruner, P., Vašíček, Z., Skupien, P., Rekáková, D., Schnabl, P., Košťák, M., Švábenická, L., Svobodvá, A., Bubík, M., Mazuch, M., Čížková, K., Kdýr, Š. 2019: Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Berriasian peri-reefal limestones at Štramberk (Outer Western Carpathians, Czech Republic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 532, 109256. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109256. 

Košťák, M., Jagt, J.W.M., Schlögl, J., 2018: Diversity and distribution of Miocene–Pliocene sepiids (Cephalopoda) in the Mediterranean area, with new records from Italy and Turkey. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. DOI: 10.1007/s13358-018-0179-4.)

Košťák, M. & Jagt, J.W.M. 2018: A new species of Sepia (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea) from the Miocene of northwest Germany: a contribution to sepiid palaeobiogeography. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen 288/3, 273-281, DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2018/0741.

Košťák, M., Vaňková, l., Mazuch, M., Bubík, M., Reháková, D. 2018: Stable isotope record (δ13C, δ18O), invertebrates and small vertebrate fauna from the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition of the Kurovice quarry (Czech Republic, Outer Western Carpathians). Cretaceous Research, 92, 43-65. DOI: 101016/j.cretres.2018.05.011.

Košťák, M., Schlögl, J., Culka, A., Tomašových, A., Mazuch, M., Hudáčková, N., 2018: The unique preservation of Sepia soft tissues in the Miocene deposits (Serravalian, Vienna Basin): Implications for the origin of microbodies in the fossil record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatlogy, Palaeoecology 493(2018), 111-118. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.01.005.

Košťák, M., Čech, S., Uličný, D., Sklenář, J., Ekrt, B., Mazuch. M., 2018: Ammonites, inoceramids and stable carbon isotopes of the Cenomanian–Turonian OAE2 interval in central Europe: Pecínov quarry, Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic). Cretaceous Research 87, 150-173. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.04.013.

Hyžný, M.,  Kroh, A., Ziegler, A., Anker, A., Košťák, M., Schlögl, J., Culka, A., Jagt, J.W.M., Fraaije, R.H.B., Harzhauser, M., Bakel, B.W.M. van, Ruman, A., 2017: Comprehensive analysis and reinterpretation of Cenozoic mesofossils reveals ancient origin of the snapping claw of alpheid shrimps. Scientific Reports 7, 4076. DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-02603-5.

Košťák, M., Ruman, A., Schlögl, J., Hudáčková, N., Fuchs, D., Mazuch, M., 2017: Miocene sepiids (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea) from Australia. Fossil Record 20 (2), 159-172. DOI:10.5194/fr-20-1-2017.

Svobodová, A. & Košťák, M. 2016: Calcareous nannofossils of the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary strata in the Puerto Escaño section (southern Spain) - biostratigraphy and palaeoecology. Geologica Carpathica 67(3), 223-238. DOI: 10.1515/geoca-2016-0015.

Košťák, M., Schlögl, J.,  Hudáčková, N., Kroh, A., Halásová, E., Gašparič, R., Hyžný, M. Wanzenböck, G.,  2016: Sepia from the Miocene of the Central Paratethys: new taxa and notes on late Cenozoic cuttlefish diversity. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14(12), 1033-1057. DOI. 10.1080/14772019.2015.1135194.

Fuchs, D. & Košťák, M. 2016: Amphispirula nov. gen. from the Eocene of Southern Moravia (Czech Republic): a new ancestor of the Recent deep-sea squid Spirula? Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(2), 91-98. DOI. 10.1080/14772019.2015.1016559.

Wilmsen, M, Uličný, D., Košťák, M., 2014: Cretaceous basins of Central Europe: deciphering effects of global and regional processes - a short introduction. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 165(4), 495-499. DOI: 10.1127/1860-1804/2014/0088.

Svobodová, A, Košťák, M., Čech, S., Švábenická, L., 2014: New biostratigraphic evidence (texanitid ammonites, inoceramids and calcareous nannofossils) for the Upper and the uppermost Coniacian in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 165(4), 577-589. DOI: 10.1127/1860-1804/2014/0023.

Zakharov, V. A., Rogov, M. A., Dzyuba, O. A., Žák, K., Košťák, M., Pruner, P., Skupien, P., Chadima. M., Mazuch, M., Nikitenko, B. L., 2014: Palaeoenvironments and palaeoceanography changes across the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary in the Arctic Realm: case study of the Nordvik section (North Siberia, Russia). Polar Research 33(19714). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v33.19714.

Košťák, M., Jagt, J.W.M., Speijer, R., Stassen, P., Steurbaut, E. 2013: New Paleocene sepiid coleoids (Cephalopoda) from Egypt – evolutionary significance and origin of the sepiid ‘rostrum’. PLOS ONE 8(11): e81180. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081180.

Frank, J., Wilmsen, M., Košťák, M. 2013: The endemic and morphologically remarkable nautilid genus Deltocymatoceras Kummel, 1956 from the Late Cretaceous of Central Europe. Bulletin of Geosciences 88(4): 793-812. DOI: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1042

Belohlavek, R., Kostak, M., Osicka, P. 2013:  Formal concept analysis with background knowledge: a case study in paleobiological taxonomy of belemnites. International Journal of General Systems, 42(4), 426-440. DOI: 10.1080/03081079.2013.765079.

Košťák, M., 2012 & Hosgor, I., 2012: Belosaepiid (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea) record from the Early Eocene of the Hakkari area (Southeast Turkey) and its significance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen, 266(1), 59-65. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0260.

Hosgor, I. & Košťák, M., 2012: Occurrence of the Late Cretaceous belemnite Belemnitella in the Arabian Plate (Hakkari, SE Turkey) and its palaeogeographical significance. Cretaceous Research. 37, 35-42.  DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.02.014.

Schlögl, J., Košťák, M., Hyžný, M., 2012: First record of a gladius-bearing coleoid Teudopsis bollensis Voltz (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea) in the Toarcian of Western Carpathians (Slovakia). Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 86(4), 367-375. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-012-0139-z.

Košťák, M., 2012: On the Turonian origin of the Goniocamax-Belemnitella stock (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea). Géobios, 45(1), 79-85. DOI: 10.1016/j.geobios.2011.11.004.

Přikryl, T., Košťák, M., Mazuch, M., Mikuláš, R. 2012: Evidence for fish predation on a coleoid cephalopod from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie Abhandlungen, 263, 1, 25-33. DOI: 10.1127/007-7749/2012/0206.

For the complete bibliography see Research Gate.