Fossil insects from the Late Oligocene Enspel Lagerstätte and their palaeobiogeographic and palaeoclimatic significance

Wedmann, Sonja; Poschmann, Markus; Hörnschemeyer, Thomas

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“…As reported from other maar‐type lagerstätten (Lutz ; Wedmann et al . ), arthropods with fully or semi‐aquatic lifestyle are rare in such taphocoenoses: at Foulden Maar, they include a stone fly, a trichopteran larval case, as yet unidentified insect larvae and possibly aquatic hydrophylid beetles. The arthropod fauna is clearly dominated by adults of non‐aquatic, mainly ground‐dwelling taxa of forest floor, leaf litter and wood habitats such as bark bugs, weevils, scale insects, termites and ants.…”

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A diverse fossil terrestrial arthropod fauna from New Zealand: evidence from the early Miocene Foulden Maar fossil lagerstätte

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Fossil evidence for the evolutionary history of terrestrial arthropods in New Zealand is extremely limited; only six pre‐Quaternary insects (Triassic to Eocene) have been recorded previously, none of Miocene age. The Foulden Maar fossil lagerstätte in Otago has now yielded a diverse arthropod assemblage, including members of the Araneae, Plecoptera, Isoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Trichoptera and Diptera. The fauna significantly emends the fossil record for the Southern Hemisphere, provides an unparalleled insight into a 23‐million‐year‐old New Zealand lake/forest palaeoecosystem and allows a first evaluation of arthropod diversity at a time coeval with or shortly after the maximum marine transgression of Zealandia in the late Oligocene. The well‐preserved arthropods chiefly represent ground‐dwelling taxa of forest floor and leaf litter habitats, mostly from sub‐families and genera that are still present in the modern fauna. They provide precisely dated fossil evidence for the antiquity of some of New Zealand's terrestrial arthropods and the first potential time calibrations for phylogenetic studies. The high arthropod diversity at Foulden Maar, together with a subtropical rainforest flora and fossil evidence for complex arthropod–plant interactions, suggests that terrestrial arthropods persisted during the Oligocene marine transgression of Zealandia.

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A diverse fossil terrestrial arthropod fauna from New Zealand: evidence from the early Miocene Foulden Maar fossil lagerstätte

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“…Thus, we propose to attribute these fossils to Oligaeschna, in accordance with Wedmann (2000: fig. 5) and Wedmann et al (2010: fig. 6d) who indicated that it is 'probably Oligaeschna jungi'.…”

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“…The Odonata are relatively rare, represented by a total of about 70 fossils, roughly 0.6 per cent of all insect finds. Of those, 12 fossils of Anisoptera are wings derived from adult animals, one specimen is the adult Zygoptera: Sieblosiidae described herein, and the rest represent nymphal stages or exuviae thereof attributable to various odonate families (Wedmann, 2000;Wedmann et al, 2010;Brockhaus et al, 2020). One of these wings is attributable to the family Macromiidae (Brockhaus et al, 2020), and another one is too incomplete to allow further conclusions.…”

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New dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) from the late Oligocene of Enspel (Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany)

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2020

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“…; Wedmann et al . ) and colour patterning in fossil molluscs (Hagdorn and Sandy ), insects (Fig. ; Wang et al .…”

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The taphonomy of colour in fossil insects and feathers

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2013

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Colouration is an important multifunctional attribute of modern animals, but its evolutionary history is poorly resolved, in part because of our limited ability to recognize and interpret fossil evidence of colour. Recent studies on structural and pigmentary colours in fossil insects and feathers have illuminated important aspects of the anatomy, taphonomy, evolution and function of colour in these fossils. An understanding of the taphonomic factors that control the preservation of colour is key to assessing the fidelity with which original colours are preserved and can constrain interpretations of the visual appearance of fossil insects and theropods. Various analytical approaches can identify anatomical and chemical evidence of colour in fossils; experimental taphonomic studies inform on how colour alters during diagenesis. Preservation of colour is controlled by a suite of factors, the most important of which relate to the diagenetic history of the host sediment, that is, maximum burial temperatures and fluid flow, and subsurface weathering. Future studies focussing on key morphological and chemical aspects of colour preservation relating to cuticular pigments in insects and keratinous structures and nonmelanin pigments in feathers, for example, will resolve outstanding questions regarding the taphonomy of colour and will enhance our ability to infer original colouration and its functions in fossil insects and theropods.

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Fossil insects from the Late Oligocene Enspel Lagerstätte and their palaeobiogeographic and palaeoclimatic significance

Cited by 27 publications

References 29 publications

A diverse fossil terrestrial arthropod fauna from New Zealand: evidence from the early Miocene Foulden Maar fossil lagerstätte

A diverse fossil terrestrial arthropod fauna from New Zealand: evidence from the early Miocene Foulden Maar fossil lagerstätte

New dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata) from the late Oligocene of Enspel (Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany)

The taphonomy of colour in fossil insects and feathers

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