Fossil RecordPub Date : 2019-05-15DOI: 10.5194/FR-22-31-2019
Volker Lohrmann, M. Ohl, P. Michalik, J. Pitts, L. Jeanneau, V. Perrichot
{"title":"Notes on rhopalosomatid wasps of Dominican and Mexican amber (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae) with a description of the first fossil species of Rhopalosoma Cresson, 1865","authors":"Volker Lohrmann, M. Ohl, P. Michalik, J. Pitts, L. Jeanneau, V. Perrichot","doi":"10.5194/FR-22-31-2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-22-31-2019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Rhopalosomatidae are a family of aculeate wasps that are\u0000ectoparasitoids of crickets as larvae and are predominantly distributed pantropically.\u0000The published fossil record of the family is scarce. Here, we report three\u0000new fossil rhopalosomatid wasp specimens from Dominican and Mexican amber.\u0000Rhopalosoma hispaniola Lohrmann sp. nov. is described and documented\u0000from Dominican amber by two separate inclusions – one of each sex. An\u0000additional fossil female Rhopalosoma is described and documented\u0000from Mexican amber but is not named due to the insufficient preservation of the\u0000fossil. The new fossils, which are morphologically intermediate between\u0000Townes' isopus and poeyi species groups, do not only\u0000represent the first fossil records of an extant genus of this peculiar\u0000family but also the first records of the family in Dominican and Mexican\u0000amber.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42824120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2019-04-18DOI: 10.5194/FR-22-25-2019
A. Bukejs, A. Legalov
{"title":"First record of the tribe Naupactini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Rovno amber","authors":"A. Bukejs, A. Legalov","doi":"10.5194/FR-22-25-2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-22-25-2019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A new weevil, Arostropsis perkovskyi Bukejs and Legalov, sp. nov. (urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:408ECE71-B191-4381-AA39-C27A3A1DA082; Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), is described from Late Eocene Rovno amber. The new species differs from Arostropsis groehni Yunakov et Kirejtshuk, 2011 from Baltic amber in the pronotum lacking a distinct lateral ridge, it has a shorter rostrum, antennomere 2 is subequal to antennomere 3, it has wider elytra with weaker convex humeral calli and the pronotum is wider than it is long. It is the first record of the tribe Naupactini in Rovno amber and the second finding of Arostropsis in Eocene ambers.","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44366183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2019-01-07DOI: 10.5194/FR-22-1-2019
G. Arratia, H. Schultze, Helmut Tischlinger
{"title":"On a remarkable new species of Tharsis, a Late Jurassic teleostean fish from southern Germany: its morphology and phylogenetic relationships","authors":"G. Arratia, H. Schultze, Helmut Tischlinger","doi":"10.5194/FR-22-1-2019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-22-1-2019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. A complete morphological description, as preservation permits, is provided\u0000for a new Late Jurassic fish species (Tharsis elleri) together with\u0000a revision and comparison of some morphological features of Tharsis dubius, one of the most common species from the Solnhofen limestone,\u0000southern Germany. An emended diagnosis of the genus Tharsis – now\u0000including two species – is presented. The new species is characterized by a\u0000combination of morphological characters, such as the presence of a complete\u0000sclerotic ring formed by two bones placed anterior and posterior to the eye,\u0000a moderately short lower jaw with quadrate-mandibular articulation below the\u0000anterior half of the orbit, caudal vertebrae with neural and haemal arches\u0000fused to their respective vertebral centrum, and parapophyses fused to their\u0000respective centrum. A phylogenetic analysis based on 198 characters and\u000043 taxa is performed. Following the phylogenetic hypothesis, the sister-group\u0000relationship Ascalaboidae plus more advanced teleosts stands above the node\u0000of Leptolepis coryphaenoides. Both nodes have strong support among teleosts. The results\u0000confirm the inclusion of Ascalabos, Ebertichthys and\u0000Tharsis as members of this extinct family. Tharsis elleri\u0000n. sp. (LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:6434E6F5-2DDD-48CF-A2B1-827495FE46E6,\u0000date: 13 December 2018) is so far restricted to one Upper Jurassic German\u0000locality – Wegscheid Quarry near Schernfeld, Eichstätt – whereas\u0000Tharsis dubius is known not only from Wegscheid Quarry, but also\u0000from different localities in the Upper Jurassic of Bavaria, Germany, and\u0000Cerin in France.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46665398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2018-12-13DOI: 10.5194/FR-21-301-2018
W. Joyce, V. Volpato, Y. Rollot
{"title":"The skull of the carettochelyid turtle Anosteira pulchra from the Eocene (Uintan) of Wyoming and the carotid canal system of carettochelyid turtles","authors":"W. Joyce, V. Volpato, Y. Rollot","doi":"10.5194/FR-21-301-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-21-301-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Here we document the morphology of the only known skull\u0000of a carettochelyid turtle from North America. The specimen originates from\u0000the middle Eocene (early Uintan) Washakie Formation of Sweetwater County,\u0000Wyoming, and is referred to\u0000Anosteira pulchra based on temporal considerations. The skull of\u0000Anosteira pulchra broadly corresponds in its morphology to that of\u0000other carettochelyids but exhibits numerous differences that are related to\u0000it being more gracile. As a meaningful outgroup is lacking, it is not possible to determine if the gracile\u0000morphology seen in this taxon is apomorphic or plesiomorphic for the\u0000Anosteira–Allaeochelys\u0000clade. Anosteira pulchra and Carettochelys insculpta lack\u0000an ossified palatine canal. We conclude by reference to extant trionychids\u0000that the palatine (mandibular) canal is likely present but branches from the\u0000cerebral (pseudopalatine) canal following its exit from the sella turcica. As\u0000in trionychids, the vidian branch of the facial nerve (VII) of\u0000Anosteira pulchra and Carettochelys insculpta mostly\u0000traverses the palatine.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48723931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2018-10-24DOI: 10.5194/FR-21-291-2018
Y. Nishioka, C. Vidthayanon
{"title":"First occurrence of Duboisia (Bovidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from Thailand","authors":"Y. Nishioka, C. Vidthayanon","doi":"10.5194/FR-21-291-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-21-291-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. The first fossil record of Duboisia (Boselaphini, Bovidae) from\u0000Thailand confirms that this genus is no longer endemic to Java, Indonesia.\u0000The new fossil material is a calvarium with horn cores (older than the Middle\u0000Pleistocene) collected from a sandpit at Tha Chang, Nakhon Ratchasima\u0000Province, north-eastern Thailand. The present specimen is provisionally\u0000allocated to a species of Duboisia aff. D. santeng, which\u0000has weaker precornual ridges and anterior keels on the horn cores than\u0000D. santeng from Early and Middle Pleistocene deposits of Java, but\u0000these species share basic characteristics of horn cores as follows: the lower\u0000half inclined backwards; the upper half curved upwards; cross section rounded\u0000triangular, antero-posteriorly compressed, and with medial and lateral keels.\u0000Morphological similarities between D. aff. santeng and D. santeng support a strong faunal interchange between continental South East Asia\u0000and Java before the Middle Pleistocene, and suggest that the genus\u0000Duboisia diverged from the other genera of Boselaphini in the\u0000“Siva-Malayan” region.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44896894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2018-10-23DOI: 10.5194/FR-21-285-2018
J. Dunlop, K. Frahnert, J. Mąkol
{"title":"A giant mite in Cretaceous Burmese amber","authors":"J. Dunlop, K. Frahnert, J. Mąkol","doi":"10.5194/FR-21-285-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-21-285-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. An unusually large acariform mite is described as Immensmaris\u0000chewbaccei gen. et sp. nov. from the Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma)\u0000Burmese amber of Myanmar. With an idiosoma plus gnathosoma more than a\u0000centimetre long, it represents the largest unequivocal fossil mite ever\u0000recorded and approaches the maximum size of the largest living Acariformes\u0000today. Although some details of the dorsal idiosoma are equivocal, the new\u0000fossil appears to belong to Smarididae (Prostigmata: Parasitengona:\u0000Erythraeoidea) and also represents the largest erythraeoid mite ever\u0000discovered, indicating a clade of giant, possibly arboreal, mites in the Late\u0000Cretaceous of southeastern Asia.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43897092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2018-09-28DOI: 10.5194/FR-21-237-2018
France de Lapparent de Broin, X. Murelaga, A. Pérez‐García, Francesc Farrés, J. Altimiras
{"title":"The turtles from the upper Eocene, Osona County (Ebro Basin, Catalonia, Spain): new material and its faunistic and environmental context","authors":"France de Lapparent de Broin, X. Murelaga, A. Pérez‐García, Francesc Farrés, J. Altimiras","doi":"10.5194/FR-21-237-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-21-237-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Eochelone voltregana n. sp. is a new marine cryptodiran cheloniid found at the Priabonian levels (latest Eocene) of the Vespella marls member of the Vic–Manlleu marls formation. It is the second cheloniid from Santa Cecília de Voltregà (Osona County, Spain), the first one being Osonachelus decorata from the same formation. Shell parameters indicate that the new species belongs to a branch of sea turtles including the Eocene Anglo–Franco–Belgian forms Argillochelys, Puppigerus and Eochelone (the shell of the latter was studied here for the first time) as well as Glarichelys from the Oligocene of Switzerland, all of them predating the worldwide living Miocene genera. The description of two other more littoral–continental Eocene species is given: Trionyx sp., from an older layer of the same formation; and the podocnemidid erymnochelyine, Cordichelys from a more basal layer of a middle Eocene (Lutetian) formation. The last one is identified as the only evidence of the Shweboemys subgroup in the European record, being distinct from the other known Osona County pleurodire Eocenochelus farresi, which is a member of the Erymnochelys group (same subfamily), from the younger Priabonian Sant Martí Xic layer. Thus, an update on the marine turtle fauna of the eastern Ebro Basin that variably opened in the east during Eocene times is provided. The turtles of Osona County belong to two suborders and five genera with three new species and extend the known distribution of their families (LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:48CE8676-7B82-4EF2-8165-27BEE90129F2).","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42096005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2018-09-11DOI: 10.5194/FR-21-223-2018
M. Wegerer, K. De Baets, D. Korn
{"title":"Quantitative analysis of suture lines in Carboniferous ammonoids","authors":"M. Wegerer, K. De Baets, D. Korn","doi":"10.5194/FR-21-223-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-21-223-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Two morphometric\u0000methods are applied and compared for the analysis of suture lines in Early\u0000Carboniferous ammonoids of the superfamilies Pericycloidea, Girtyoceratoidea\u0000and Goniatitoidea. We analysed (1) classic metric data (proportions of the\u0000width and depths or heights of lobes and saddles) using multivariate\u0000statistic methods and (2) outline data of the external lobe and the\u0000ventrolateral saddle of the same ammonoid taxa using the elliptic Fourier\u0000analysis. Both methods lead to similar results and simultaneously demonstrate\u0000ontogenetic and phylogenetic trends of these ammonoids. Our results are\u0000consistent with three previously suggested evolutionary patterns: (1) a\u0000general decrease of the amplitude of lobes and saddles, (2) a proportional\u0000widening of the external lobe and (3) a heightening of the median saddle.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47566165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2018-08-29DOI: 10.5194/FR-21-213-2018
A. Schmidt, Dennis Grabow, C. Beimforde, V. Perrichot, J. Rikkinen, S. Saint Martin, V. Thiel, L. Seyfullah
{"title":"Marine microorganisms as amber inclusions: insights from coastal forests of New Caledonia","authors":"A. Schmidt, Dennis Grabow, C. Beimforde, V. Perrichot, J. Rikkinen, S. Saint Martin, V. Thiel, L. Seyfullah","doi":"10.5194/FR-21-213-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-21-213-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Marine microorganisms trapped in amber are\u0000extremely rare in the fossil record, and the few existing inclusions\u0000recovered so far originate from very few pieces of Cretaceous amber from\u0000France. Marine macroscopic inclusions are also very rare and were recently\u0000described from Cretaceous Burmese amber and Early Miocene Mexican amber.\u0000Whereas a coastal setting for the amber source forests is generally proposed,\u0000different scenarios have been suggested to explain how these marine\u0000inclusions can become trapped in a resin of terrestrial origin. These\u0000scenarios include an introduction of marine organisms (i) through high tides,\u0000(ii) from storms and resulting in flooding of the littoral/estuarine forest\u0000floor, (iii) in resin dropped into the sea in mangrove-type settings, or\u0000(iv) by wind and sea spray. We investigated the possibility of a wind-driven\u0000introduction of marine microorganisms into tree resins using modern coastal\u0000conifer forests with the highly resinous Cook pine (Araucaria columnaris) in New Caledonia as a model for the Cretaceous amber forests\u0000from France. By exposing fresh resin surfaces on the seaward side of the\u0000trees and the collection of older in situ resins, we confirmed that marine\u0000microorganisms can become trapped on sea-exposed resin, along with remnants\u0000from terrestrial organisms, and salt crystals. We suggest that, for cases\u0000where only a few marine inclusions are discovered in an amber deposit, an\u0000origin from aeolian background deposition is feasible. However, a more\u0000energetic but possibly still aeolian event is likely needed to explain the\u0000high numbers of marine microorganisms embedded in pieces of Cretaceous amber\u0000from France.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45016812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fossil RecordPub Date : 2018-08-21DOI: 10.5194/FR-21-207-2018
A. Legalov, V. Nazarenko, E. Perkovsky
{"title":"A new genus of fungus weevils (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) in Rovno amber","authors":"A. Legalov, V. Nazarenko, E. Perkovsky","doi":"10.5194/FR-21-207-2018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/FR-21-207-2018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. New fungus weevils, Eduardoxenus unicus (ZooBank registration:\u0000urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:5732 BC85-9148-4FE5-A4F6-46847BA0138D,\u0000urn:lsid:zoobank.org: act:4D3B3EA8-AE0E-4E6D-A770-B427AC19ED03) Legalov,\u0000Nazarenko et Perkovsky, gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Anthribidae), are\u0000described from late Eocene Rovno amber. The new genus is similar to the genus\u0000Cyptoxenus Valentine, 1982, but differs in coarsely faceted eyes,\u0000antennomere 2 shorter than antennomere 1 and an almost glabrous body. It\u0000differs from the genus Valenfriesia Alonso-Zarazaga et Lyal, 1999 in\u0000the coarsely faceted eyes, almost straight transversal carina on the pronotum\u0000and distinct elytral humeri, and it differs from the genus Neoxenus\u0000Valentine, 1999 in distinct lateral carina on the pronotum, coarsely faceted\u0000eyes and almost straight transversal pronotal carina. This fossil fungus\u0000weevil is the oldest finding of the tribe Valenfriesiini in fossil state and\u0000the first record of the Choraginae from the Eocene amber. The\u0000palaeogeographical and palaeoclimatological importance of finding\u0000Valenfriesiini in Rovno amber is discussed.\u0000","PeriodicalId":48830,"journal":{"name":"Fossil Record","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2018-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45429370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}