Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology最新文献

{"title":"First fossil record of Perameles fasciata from New South Wales and Queensland: reassessment of Perameles sobbei","authors":"K. Travouillon","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2023.2175034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2175034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The first fossil record of the Liverpool Plains striped bandicoot, Perameles fasciata, is presented. Since this species was split from its west coast counterpart, Perameles bougainville, no fossil record had been reported. Perameles fasciata is found in five fossil sites in Queensland and New South Wales, all Pleistocene in age. Perameles sobbei, described from the Darling Downs in Queensland, is found to be a junior synonym of P. fasciata, based on morphometrics and diagnostic morphological features. A morphological phylogeny finds that P. fasciata is more closely related to Perameles nasuta, Perameles pallescens and Perameles gunnii than P. bougainville. Perameles fasciata was likely more widespread in the Pleistocene, but by the Holocene had only survived on the Liverpool Plains in New South Wales until its extinction in the 1860s, probably as a result of land clearing and the introduction of foxes. While P. bougainville has been translocated in New South Wales, P. gunnii, which co-occurred with P. fasciata, is a better ecological analogue because of it is similar size, morphology and phylogenetic affinity. Kenny J. Travouillon [ Kenny.Travouillon@museum.wa.gov.au ], Collections and Research Centre, Western Australian Museum, 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, WA 6106, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124564042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ontogenetic allometry reveals the imprint of myrmecophagy in the skull of the numbat, Myrmecobius fasciatus Waterhouse, 1836 (Marsupialia: Myrmecobiidae)","authors":"N. Giannini, F. Abdala, David A. Flores, L. A. Wilson","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2153268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2153268","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Ontogenetic allometry, the covariation of shape with size over the course of development, represents a fundamental component of morphological diversification that can vary across species and in association with ecological factors. Ontogenetic allometry patterns for the skull have been described for species from several marsupial lineages, associated with common dietary niches, e.g., carnivory. We here conduct a novel detailed examination of cranial ontogeny in the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), unique among marsupials in being myrmecophagous and adopting a strictly diurnal habit. We investigated ontogenetic allometry using multivariate analyses in a postnatal series (n = 28) of complete numbat skulls to estimate the rate of growth of its major constituent elements, described by 15 measurements. We find positive allometry for length of the nasals and palate, which relates directly to the remarkable rostral elongation in the species relative to other marsupials, in addition to several other ontogenetic changes. These comprise negative allometry of palate breadth, elongation of upper and lower toothrows that produces diastemata between weakly developed teeth, and decreasing muzzle height, all of which contribute to the development of a long, tapering, narrow rostrum, with limited mastication ability, as seen in the small temporal space and poor development of crests and processes associated with jaw musculature. Our specific allometric results and comparisons, together with qualitative observations, reveal a distinct imprint of myrmecophagy on skull ontogeny in the numbat and help explain the development and evolution of specialized feeding function of this species. Norberto P. Giannini [ngiannini@amnh.org ], CONICET Fundacion Miguel Lillo, Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, UEL, Tucumán, Argentina, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina, Department of Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA; Fernando Abdala [nestor.abdala@wits.ac.za ], CONICET Fundacion Miguel Lillo, Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, UEL, Tucumán, Argentina, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; David A. Flores [dflores@macn.gov.ar ], CONICET Fundacion Miguel Lillo, Unidad Ejecutora Lillo, UEL, Tucumán, Argentina, Instituto de Vertebrados, Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucumán, Argentina; Laura A. B. Wilson [laura.wilson@anu.edu.au], School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114590783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interim report on the vertebrate deposits recovered from the Capricorn Caves, Rockhampton, Queensland","authors":"Julien Louys, Jonathan Cramb, Kyle J. Ferguson, J. Kemp, R. Wood, J. Miszkiewicz, Nathalia R. Dias Guimarães, Pennilyn Higgins, K. Travouillon, S. Hocknull, G. Webb, G. Price","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2157486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2157486","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Late Pleistocene to Holocene-aged microfaunal assemblages are rarely reported in Australia despite their critical importance for palaeoecological studies, as well as their bearing on the megafaunal extinction debate. Capricorn Caves, central-eastern Queensland, hosts three Late Pleistocene to Holocene deposits containing significant faunal records. Excavations were conducted on these deposits over several seasons, with analyses of recovered material ongoing. Here, we report interim results and explore their implications for our understanding of the microfaunal record of central eastern Queensland. Fern Chamber was previously dated using U-series to the Holocene (>7.6 ± 0.2 ka). Honeymoon Suite was dated to >6.4 ± 0.2 ka using U-series. However, new charcoal dates from the deposit span approximately 7.5–15.5 ka, although the association between charcoal and fauna is unresolved. The fauna is likely Holocene. Colosseum Chamber is the oldest of the deposits, and new single-grain luminescence ages and age-depth modelling suggest that the deposit likely spans MIS 1–4. We use abundant fragmentary rodent remains to examine palaeoenvironmental change over this period. Carbon and oxygen isotope analyses of rodent incisor fragments reveal broad diets within the rodent community, and significant differences in precipitation between glacial and interglacial conditions. Rodent long bone histological analyses indicate significant differences in bone metabolism at the family level between the MIS 3 and 2 samples, but not MIS 1. We suggest that these data support evidence for a mid-Holocene arid anomaly in the region, and increased aridity through the Holocene relative to the terminal Pleistocene. The sites contain at least 10 small mammal species either globally extinct or locally extirpated, including the Capricorn rabbit-rat (Conilurus capricornensis), the white-footed rabbit-rat (Conilurus albipes), the plains mouse (Pseudomys australis), Gould’s mouse (Pseudomys gouldii), Forrest’s mouse (Leggadina forresti), the long-tailed hopping mouse (Notomys longicaudatus), swamp rat (Rattus lutreolus), the white-tailed rat (Uromys caudimaculatus), the narrow-nosed planigale (Planigale tenuirostris), the Liverpool Plains striped bandicoot (Perameles fasciata), the Cape York brown bandicoot (Isoodon peninsulae), and the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus). We also record significant range contractions for frogs (Philoria sp., Neobatrachus sp.) and earless dragons (Tympanocryptis sp.). This study demonstrates that significant changes in the microfaunal community of tropical Queensland occurred between the Late Pleistocene and the late Holocene. It also reinforces how poorly recorded native faunas are from the late Holocene through the historical period, to today. Such records underpin and are thus vital for modern biodiversity conservation efforts. Julien Louys [j.louys@griffith.edu.au ], Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith Universit","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132959160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two new marsupial lion taxa (Marsupialia, Thylacoleonidae) from the early and Middle Miocene of Australia","authors":"A. Gillespie","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2152096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2152096","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Five species of marsupial lions (Thylacoleonidae) have been documented from the Oligo-Miocene freshwater limestone deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area in northwestern Queensland, significantly altering understanding of the evolution of this extinct family. This paper presents a further two new thylacoleonid taxa from this fossil-rich region: Lekaneleo myersi sp. nov., from middle Miocene deposits, and Enigmaleo archeri gen. et sp. nov., from early Miocene deposits. Lekaneleo myersi is described from a dentary, partial maxilla and isolated teeth. It is approximately 10% larger in most linear dental dimensions than its sister taxon L. roskellyae. In this feature, it echoes the morphological cline shown by members of the Wakaleo lineage of marsupial lions, which increase their size through the Miocene. Although the first upper molar of L. myersi exhibits a tall metacone, a feature normally characteristic of species of Wakaleo, other features of its upper and lower molars support its attribution to Lekaneleo. Enigmaleo archeri gen. et sp. nov. is described from an isolated upper third premolar. This species is smaller than those of Lekaneleo, but larger than Microleo attenboroughi, the smallest known thylacoleonid. This premolar exhibits an intriguing combination of features, some of which are seen in Microleo and others in Lekaneleo, and on this basis is attributed to a new genus. It is the fourth thylacoleonid taxon from early Miocene deposits, making this time the most diverse period in thylacoleonid evolution. Phylogenetic analysis of 53 dental and 16 cranial characters recovers Enigmaleo as the sister taxon to Microleo, with this clade forming the sister group to the rest of the thylacoleonid family; however, the relationships among species of Lekaneleo was not resolved in this analysis. Comparisons of the morphology of the upper third premolars of all thylacoleonid taxa indicate that the evolution of the Thylacoleo form is more likely to have been derived from a Microleo or Enigmaleo form, and on this basis it is postulated that one of these groups may have provided the ancestor of the Thylacoleo lineage. Anna Gillespie [a.gillespie@unsw.edu.au], Earth and Sustainability Science Research Centre, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Science. University of New South Wales 2052, Sydney, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114814342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Novel coprolitic records from the Silurian (Přídolí) Wallace Shale of New South Wales","authors":"R. Bicknell, Patrick M. Smith, J. Kimmig","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2023.2185679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2185679","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Evidence of successful predation or scavenging in the fossil record represents important palaeobiological data to more thoroughly understanding extinct ecosystems. Shelly coprolites are particularly useful indications of durophagous predation in deposits, as they can have a higher preservational potential than their producers. Here we present a new shelly coprolite from the Silurian (Přídolí) Wallace Shale of New South Wales, Australia. This specimen contains abundant fragments of the trilobite Denckmannites rutherfordi Sherwin, 1968 that show limited disarticulation across exoskeletal sections. We propose that a pterygotid eurypterid was the most likely producer of this coprolite, although trilobites and fishes are not completely excluded as possible trace-makers. In documenting this specimen, we highlight that the Wallace Shale likely preserves a more complex palaeoecosystem than previously thought and renewed efforts to understand this deposit are needed in light of this new insight. R.D.C. Bicknell [rdcbicknell@gmail.com], Palaeoscience Research Centre, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, 2351, Australia; P.M. Smith [Patrick.Smith@austmus.gov.au], Palaeontology Department, Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, 2010, Australia; Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia; J. Kimmig [julien.kimmig@smnk.de], Abteilung Geowissenschaften, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 76133, Germany.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125666139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) ostracods from East Junggar in Xinjiang, northwestern China","authors":"Zhengjiang Luo, Rui Wang, A. Amuti, Yonglin Deng, Yucong Sun, Wenkun Qie, Junjun Song","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2157047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2157047","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Late Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) ostracods are described from East Junggar in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (referred here as Xinjiang) of northwestern China. Twenty-one species belonging to 11 genera are recognized. Among them, two are new, Acratia xinjiangensis sp. nov. and Healdianella shiqianensis sp. nov. These species can be referred to the Ostracod Assemblage‐3 (OA-3) of the Shiqiantan Formation, and together with zircon U-P dating suggest a probable Moscovian–Kasimovian (middle–late Pennsylvanian) age for the unit. The OA-3 found in the limestones of the Shiqiantan Formation inhabited in open oceanic island arc context that is ecologically equivalent to the Eifelian Mega-Assemblage, and incorporated smooth-podocopid associations. The Shiqiantan Formation OA-3 thus implies a foreshore to offshore environmental transition within a post-collision rift basin. Zhengjiang Luo [luozj@petrochina.com.cn], Rui Wang [Wangrui@petrochina.com.cn], Aliya Amuti [alya@petrochina.com.cn] and Yong Deng [dengyong@petrochina.com.cn], PetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield Company Research Institute of Experiment and Detection and Joint Laboratory of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology, Xinjiang Oilfield Company, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS, Karamay, Xinjiang 834000, PR China Yucong Sun [18635935938@163.com], Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing 100049, PR China; Wenkun Qie [wkqie@nigpas.ac.cn] and Junjun Song [jjsong@nigpas.ac.cn] State Key Laboratory of Paleobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing 100049, PR China.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132502457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pennsylvanian brachiopod faunas from the El Imperial Formation (San Rafael Basin) of central-western Argentina","authors":"Cristian Pardo, C. A. Taboada, A. Taboada, M. A. Pagani","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2023.2181396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2181396","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While some Upper Paleozoic basins in central-western Argentina have been extensively studied, others have poorly understood biostratigraphy. The current biozone heterogeneity between basins could be an artefact of incompletely sampled invertebrate fossil assemblages preventing precise correlations. Here, we therefore provide a taxonomic assessment of brachiopods recovered from fossil-bearing beds of the El Imperial Formation at Arroyo del Imperial, Quebrada de La Horqueta, and Cañón del Atuel. Two distinct biozones are identified: (1) a conspicuous Moscovian Tivertonia jachalensis–Streptorhynchus inaequiornatus Biozone (TS) from the Cañón del Atuel section; (2) a new early late Bashkirian Saltospirifer guevarai–Pericospira sanjuanensis Biozone (SP) from the Arroyo del Imperial and Quebrada de La Horqueta sections. The TS assemblage includes Argentiella stappenbecki, Oehlertella annae, Orbiculoidea saltensis, Coolkilella aredesi, Calytrixia piersoni, Costatumulus sp. and Septosyringothyris? sp. The SP assemblage comprises cf. Buxtonia riojana, Streptorhynchus inaequiornatus, cf. Septosyringothyris (Precosyringothyris) feruglioi, cf. Septosyringothyris (Precosyringothyris) jaguelensis, ?Spiriferellina sp., Saltospirifer guevarai and cf. Pericospira sanjuanensis. The El Imperial Formation brachiopod biozones provide a basis for accurate biocorrelation between regional lithostratigraphical units, and clarify the Upper Paleozoic biochronostratigraphical scheme for central-western Argentina during the Pennsylvanian. Cristian Adrián Pardo [pardocr22@gmail.com], Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CIEMEP) CONICET-UNPSJB, Roca 780, Esquel (U9200), Chubut, Argentina. Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Evolución y Biodiversidad (LIEB), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud (FCNyCS), Sede Esquel, Edificio de Aulas, km 16.5, Esquel, Chubut, U9200, Argentina; César Augusto Taboada [ctaboada@mef.org.ar], Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF)-CONICET, Avenida Fontana N°140, Trelew, Chubut, U9100GYO, Argentina; Arturo César Taboada [taboadaart@gmail.com], Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CIEMEP) CONICET-UNPSJB, Roca 780, Esquel (U9200), Chubut, Argentina. Laboratorio de Investigaciones en Evolución y Biodiversidad (LIEB), Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de la Salud (FCNyCS), Sede Esquel, Edificio de Aulas, km 16.5, Esquel, Chubut, U9200, Argentina; María Alejandra Pagani [apagani@mef.org.ar], Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio (MEF)-CONICET, Avenida Fontana N°140, Trelew, Chubut, U9100GYO, Argentina.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124833451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The trilobite Pseudoblackwelderia lubrica (Damesellidae) from the Cambrian (Guzhangian) Changhia Formation of Northern Anhui, China, and its potential sexual dimorphism","authors":"Qianping Lei, Q. Liu, S. Peng","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2023.2171125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2171125","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The North China type Cambrian System is well developed in northern Anhui Province. A large number of specimens of the trilobite Pseudoblackwelderia lubrica were collected from the Guzhangian (later Cambrian) Changhia Formation at Fenghuangshan in northern Anhui, China, prompting a redefinition of the species. Our emended diagnosis includes: a cone-shaped glabella that is broadly to acutely rounded anteriorly; three pairs of glabellar furrows; the preglabellar field being absent or very short; the librigena with a narrow lateral border, a broad general field and long genal spine; the pygidium with four rings and a terminal piece on the axis; six or seven pairs of pygidial spines with the anterior five pairs being short, the posterolateral pair being long and stout, the seventh pair being small or absent. The new specimens suggest that Neimengguasps is a junior synonym of Pseudoblackwelderia. Moreover, the presence or absence of paired spines on the posterior margin of pygidium is attributed to potential sexual dimorphism. Qianping Lei [cicelyapple@126.com], Nature Department, Changzhou Museum, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, 213022, PR China Qing Liu [qingliu1029@yeah.net], Room 104, Unit A, Building Six, Fenghuanghu No. 1, Xinbei District, Changzhou 213125, PR China Shanchi Peng [scpeng@nigpas.ac.cn], State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing 210008, China; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"418 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131356561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revision of the Ordovician conodont species Fahraeusodus adentatus and the new genus Pohlerodus","authors":"Y. Zhen","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2023.2172210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2172210","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Fahraeusodus adentatus, the type species of Fahraeusodus, is revised based on the re-examination of the original types and a large collection of topotype specimens from the Emanuel Formation (Lower Ordovician) of the Canning Basin in Western Australia. Confirmation of a modified pastinate Pa element in the septimembrate ramiform-pectiniform apparatus of this conodont species has resulted in a redefined generic definition for Fahraeusodus. Based on this newly defined diagnosis of Fahraeusodus and its type species, all other species previously assigned to Fahraeusodus and Texania are reviewed and now placed in Pohlerodus gen. nov., which is erected herein to substitute Texania, which is a junior homonym. Yong Yi Zhen [ yong-yi.zhen@regional.nsw.gov.au ], Geological Survey of New South Wales, W.B. Clarke Geoscience Centre, 947–953 Londonderry Road, Londonderry NSW 2753, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122732861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fossil marsh beetle larvae (Scirtidae: Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Koonwarra Fossil Bed of Victoria, Australia","authors":"C. Watts, Howard Hamon","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2023.2184493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2184493","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The well-preserved fossils of larval Scirtidae (Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous (middle to upper Aptian) Koonwarra Fossil Bed of South Gippsland in Victoria, Australia, were examined and compared with larvae of modern species. The discernible diagnostic features of the fossils conform to the extant genus Nektriscyphon. This is the earliest known evidence for scirtids in the fossil record, and suggests that little morphological change has taken place in these still water-dwelling (lentic) larvae over the last ca 120 million years. Key character states of the fossil Nektriscyphon are compared and the palaeoecological implications discussed. Chris H. S. Watts [chrisw@samuseum.sa.au] and Howard Hamon [howard@hamon.id.au], Entomology Section, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, 5000, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133357616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}