A new terrestrial millipede fauna of earliest Carboniferous (Tournaisian) age from southeastern Scotland helps fill ‘Romer's Gap'
| Autor: | Bill Crighton, Neil D. L. Clark, Carys E. Bennett, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Vicen Carrió, Andrew J. Ross, Rubén Contreras-Izquierdo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0106 biological sciences
010506 paleontology biology Low oxygen Fauna Romer's gap Millipede biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Archaeology Tournaisian Geography Taxon Carboniferous General Earth and Planetary Sciences Archipolypoda 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 108:99-110 |
| ISSN: | 1755-6929 1755-6910 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1755691018000142 |
| Popis: | A diverse millipede (diplopod) fauna has been recovered from the earliest Carboniferous (Tournaisian) Ballagan Formation of the Scottish Borders, discovered by the late Stan Wood. The material is generally fragmentary; however, six different taxa are present based on seven specimens. Only one displays enough characters for formal description and is named Woodesmus sheari Ross, Edgecombe & Clark gen. & sp. nov. The absence of paranota justifies the erection of Woodesmidae fam. nov. within the Archipolypoda. The diverse fauna supports the theory that an apparent lack of terrestrial animal fossils from ‘Romer's Gap' was due to a lack of collecting and suitable deposits, rather than to low oxygen levels as previously suggested. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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