A new paleopteran genus and species from the late Carboniferous of Avion France, (Insecta: Palaeodictyopterida: ?Diaphanopterodea)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 032-035
Author(s):  
THOMAS SCHUBNEL ◽  
PATRICK ROQUES ◽  
JACQUES OUDARD ◽  
ROMAIN GARROUSTE ◽  
ANDRÉ NEL
Keyword(s):  
Coal Mines ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
Insect Wings ◽  
Slag Heap

The Carboniferous outcrop near Avion, in the Department of Pas-de-Calais, northern France, is very rich in fossil insect wings, which are preserved alongside thousands of plant fragments. Its entomofauna is very diverse, including representatives of the Palaeodictyoptera, Odonatoptera, Archaeorthoptera, Caloneurodea, Paoliida, Dictyoptera, Plecoptera, and the oldest representatives of the clades Acercaria and Holometabola (Nel et al., 2013, Prokop et al., 2013, 2014; Coty et al., 2014; Schubnel et al., 2019a, b). The fossil insects were found in ‘Terril N 7’, a slag heap located in the Avion area comprising Moscovian-aged sediments derived from Liévin coal mines 3 and 4, specifically the Bolsovian or Westphalian C (311–308 Ma) ‘faisceaux de Ernestine’, and the Asturian or Westphalian D (308–306 Ma) ‘veines Arago, Dusouich, Marthe’ informal beds (Bruno Vallois, 2013, pers. comm.).

scholarly journals III.—The Miocene Insect-fauna of Œningen, Baden

1895 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel H. Scudder
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Nominal Species ◽  
Insect Fauna ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Zoology ◽  
Louis Agassiz

Thanks solely to the labours of the late Oswald Heer, the fossil insect-fauna of Œningen is better known than that of any other locality or horizon in the world. But it is by no means so well known as it should be; for although Heer, in his latest enumeration of the specimens seen by him (Urwelt der Schweiz, 2e Aufl. 1879, p. 383), repeats precisely the same figures he has already given in 1861 (Recherches sur le climat du pays tert., p. 197), indicating in an interval of eighteen years no addition to his material (over 5000 specimens), his repeated additions to the number of species from that locality show that he had not fully worked over what he had. Indeed, thirty years ago, I arranged for exhibition in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge a collection of nearly one hundred and fifty named species secured by Prof. Louis Agassiz from Heer, of which more than forty still remain undescribed; there are also a considerable number of merely nominal species enumerated by Heer in his Urwelt der Schweiz and elsewhere, duly catalogued by me in my Index to Fossil Insects (Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. No. 71), but as yet neither described nor figured. In addition to this it may be noted that in the enumeration referred to above Heer mentions 543 species of beetles, while less than 270 nominal species have yet been published from Œningen, and only seven species from the Swiss Miocene, included in the enumeration.

Preservation of mandibular zinc in a beetle from the Eocene Kishenehn Formation of Montana, USA

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 614-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Greenwalt ◽  
Timothy R. Rose ◽  
Stylianos Chatzimanolis
Keyword(s):  
Thin Layer ◽  
Microbial Mat ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Exceptional Preservation ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
In Situ Preservation ◽  
Host Blood ◽  
Molecular Components

Fossil insects of the 46 million-year-old Coal Creek Member of the Kishenehn Formation exhibit exceptional preservation as evidenced by the preservation of color and the blood-derived pigment heme in a blood-engorged mosquito. In the present study, analysis of a fossil rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from the Kishenehn Formation document preservation of zinc, a metal often used to harden the cutting surfaces of mandibles in extant insects, localized to the mandibles of the fossil insect. Scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy demonstrate that the carbonaceous bodies of preserved insects are physically homogeneous, composed primarily of carbon, and are distinct from the adjacent microbial mat within which the insects are thought to have been preserved. The microbial mat that covered the fossil insects is shown to consist of, in part, well-consolidated silicates. This thin layer, while completely transparent when wet, obscures the fossil when dry. The in situ preservation of components such as mandibular zinc and mosquito host blood-derived heme demonstrate that the carbonaceous bodies of Kishenehn Formation fossil insects contain some portion of their original contents. The thin layer of silicate-embedded mat may function to stabilize the fossil and its molecular components and may explain, in part, the exceptional preservation of the Kishenehn Formation fossils.

scholarly journals Leveraging Collective Experience to Digitize the Fossil Insects of Los Angeles

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e26385
Author(s):  
Lindsay Walker ◽  
Erica Krimmel ◽  
Jann Vendetti ◽  
Austin Hendy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Test Case ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
La Brea Tar Pits ◽  
Rancho La Brea

The Invertebrate Paleontology Collection at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA) has received support from the United States National Science Foundation (NSF DBI 1702342) to digitize the museum’s unique and historic collection of 28,000+ fossil insects. The primary goal of this project, “Fossil Insects of L.A.”, is to increase access to these collections for both research and education. Key collections to be become discoverable through iDigBio and iDigPaleo include the Georg Statz Collection (Oligocene, Rott Formation, Germany) and three faunas from Southern California: Barstow (Miocene), Rancho La Brea (Pleistocene), and McKittrick (Pleistocene). Fossil Insects of L.A. constitutes the final contribution to the Fossil Insect Collaborative Thematic Collections Network (TCN), a consortium of institutions that have been digitizing the largest fossil insect collections in the United States. As a project beginning at the tail-end of the TCN’s active funding, Fossil Insects of L.A. is actively leveraging existing TCN knowledge and resources to streamline workflows and efficiently achieve project goals. In addition to basing imaging and preservation protocols on those designed by TCN partners, Fossil Insects of L.A. is using a layered approach to provide high-quality taxonomic information without sacrificing the pace of specimen digitization. Previously unidentified specimens are initially identified only to Order, allowing them to quickly continue through the digitization process; specimens can then be re-examined by experienced project participants and external experts, who are able to reference the specimen images generated during digitization. A critical and novel aspect of this component of the project’s workflow is the concurrent digitization of the literature associated with the Statz Collection. These data will be used as a test case for the "Enhancing Paleontological and Neontological Data Discovery API" (ePANDDA) project (NSF ICER 1821039), which seeks to associate related datasets found in iDigBio, iDigPaleo, and the Paleobiology Database. Fossil Insects of L.A. will digitize and make 10,960 specimens publically available online, of which over 6,200 will include images. An additional 15,684 specimen records from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits will also be included in the data mobilization. In doing so, Fossil Insects of L.A. intends to dramatically enhance the research potential of these formerly hidden collections, as well as synthesize and demonstrate digitization best practices generated through the TCN.

scholarly journals Fossils X3 for the 8th time and IPS Meeting in Santo Domingo, April 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-210
Author(s):  
JACEK SZWEDO ◽  
MÓNICA M. SOLÓRZANO KRAEMER
Keyword(s):  
Basque Country ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
European Science Foundation ◽  
World Congress ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
European Science ◽  
Beijing China ◽  
Made In

The Fossil Insect Network was created 33 years ago in 1996 in Strasbourg, France, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation. Since then, several meetings were organised: 1998—First International Palaeoentomological Conference in Moscow, Russia; 1998—World Congress on Amber Inclusions in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain; 2000—Brazilian Symposium on Palaeoarthropodology in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil; 2001—Second International Congress on Palaeoentomology, Fossil Insects, Kraków, Poland. This Congress in Kraków was also the origination of the International Palaeoentomological Society. The year 2005 was very important as three meetings, i.e. the Palaeoentomological Conference, the World Congress on Amber Inclusions, and the International Meeting on Palaeoarthropodology were decided to merge together as Fossils X3. This decision was made in Pretoria, South Africa. Following the International Congresses on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber, Fossils X3 continued in 2007—Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2010; in Beijing, China, 2013—Byblos, Lebanon; and 2016—Edinburgh, Scotland, where ‘International Fossil Insects Day’ was declared and is now celebrated on each 1st of October.

scholarly journals Supplemental Material: Climate of the Last Glacial Maximum on the western Olympic Peninsula based on insect paleoecology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Ashworth ◽  
et al.
Keyword(s):  
Last Glacial Maximum ◽  
Glacial Maximum ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Model Data ◽  
Olympic Peninsula ◽  
Last Glacial ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
The Last Glacial Maximum ◽  
The Last Glacial

Age-depth model data, images of fossil insect and plant macroscopic remains, lists of skeletal elements for fossil insects, and locality and derived climate data for Olophrum boreale and Olophrum consimile<br>

scholarly journals Introducing Novitates Paleoentomologicae: An outlet for occasional fossil insect research at the University of Kansas

2013 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Michael S. Engel ◽  
Ryan C McKellar ◽  
Jaime Ortega-Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Insects ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
The University

A new journal is introduced which disseminates the results of research conducted at or in association with the University of Kansas on fossil insects and their relatives. The journal spans all aspects of paleoentomological research, extending beyond systematic studies to include works on insect-bearing deposits, and their taphonomy and ecology.

scholarly journals Supplemental Material: Climate of the Last Glacial Maximum on the western Olympic Peninsula based on insect paleoecology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Ashworth ◽  
et al.
Keyword(s):  
Last Glacial Maximum ◽  
Glacial Maximum ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Model Data ◽  
Olympic Peninsula ◽  
Last Glacial ◽  
Fossil Insect ◽  
The Last Glacial Maximum ◽  
The Last Glacial

Age-depth model data, images of fossil insect and plant macroscopic remains, lists of skeletal elements for fossil insects, and locality and derived climate data for Olophrum boreale and Olophrum consimile<br>

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