Amber from the Triassic to Paleogene of Australia and New Zealand as exceptional preservation of poorly known terrestrial ecosystems.

Autor: Stilwell JD; School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, 9 Rainforest Walk, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia. Jeffrey.Stilwell@monash.edu., Langendam A; School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, 9 Rainforest Walk, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia., Mays C; School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, 9 Rainforest Walk, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia.; Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, S-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden., Sutherland LJM; School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, 9 Rainforest Walk, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia., Arillo A; Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense, 28040, Madrid, Spain., Bickel DJ; Australian Museum, 1 William Street, Sydney, New South Wales, 2000, Australia., De Silva WT; School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, 9 Rainforest Walk, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia., Pentland AH; Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, John St, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia., Roghi G; Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources, CNR, Padova, Italy., Price GD; School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Science and Engineering), Plymouth University, Room 105, Fitzroy, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, UK., Cantrill DJ; Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, South Yarra, Victoria, 3141, Australia., Quinney A; Department of Geoscience at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N4, Canada., Peñalver E; Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (Museo Geominero), 46004, Valencia, Spain. e.penalver@igme.es.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Scientific reports [Sci Rep] 2020 Apr 02; Vol. 10 (1), pp. 5703. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Apr 02.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62252-z
Abstrakt: The Northern Hemisphere dominates our knowledge of Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossilized tree resin (amber) with few findings from the high southern paleolatitudes of Southern Pangea and Southern Gondwana. Here we report new Pangean and Gondwana amber occurrences dating from ~230 to 40 Ma from Australia (Late Triassic and Paleogene of Tasmania; Late Cretaceous Gippsland Basin in Victoria; Paleocene and late middle Eocene of Victoria) and New Zealand (Late Cretaceous Chatham Islands). The Paleogene, richly fossiliferous deposits contain significant and diverse inclusions of arthropods, plants and fungi. These austral discoveries open six new windows to different but crucial intervals of the Mesozoic and early Cenozoic, providing the earliest occurrence(s) of some taxa in the modern fauna and flora giving new insights into the ecology and evolution of polar and subpolar terrestrial ecosystems.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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