1. New fossil insects from the Anisian (Lower to Middle Muschelkalk) from the Central European Basin (Germany and The Netherlands)
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van Eldijk, Timo, Goris, Gerard, Haarhuis, Adam, Lankamp, Jos, Winkelhorst, Herman, Reumer, Jelle, Nel, André, Wappler, Torsten, Stratigraphy and paleontology, and Stratigraphy & paleontology
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0106 biological sciences ,Extinction event ,010506 paleontology ,Permian ,Palaeontology ,Paleontology ,Muschelkalk ,Structural basin ,Middle Triassic ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Anisian ,Winterwijk ,Insects ,Phanerozoic ,Facies ,Vossenveld Formation ,Period (geology) ,Geology ,Esperstedt ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
The Palaeozoic–Mesozoic transition is characterized not only by the most massive Phanerozoic mass extinction at the end of the Permian period, but also its extensive aftermath and a prolonged period of major biotal recovery during the succeeding Middle to Late Triassic. Particularly, Anisian insect species from units of the Lower to Middle Muschelkalk from the Central European Basin are rare. The specimens described here originated from the Anisian Wellenkalk facies (Lower Muschelkalk), Vossenveld Formation of the Winterswijk quarry, The Netherlands, and from the orbicularis Member (lowermost Middle Muschelkalk, Anisian) of Esperstedt near Querfurt (Saxony-Anhalt). Thus, the described insect remains from Winterwijk and Esperstedt expand our knowledge about Middle Triassic terrestrial arthropod communities and their palaeodiversity. A new species of Chauliodites (C. esperstedti sp. nov) is introduced.
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- 2017
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