10.6084/m9.figshare.3454835.v1
I.P. Wilkinson
I.P.
Wilkinson
P.R. Wilby
P.R.
Wilby
M. Williams
M.
Williams
D.J. Siveter
D.J.
Siveter
A.A. Page
A.A.
Page
L. Leggitt
L.
Leggitt
D.A. Riley
D.A.
Riley
Exceptionally preserved ostracodes from a Middle Miocene palaeolake, California, USA
Geological Society of London
2016
USA
California
palaeolake sediments
Exceptionally
ostracode
Middle Miocene Barstow Formation
Middle Miocene palaeolake
Geology
2016-06-21 12:23:16
Dataset
https://geolsoc.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Exceptionally_preserved_ostracodes_from_a_Middle_Miocene_palaeolake_California_USA/3454835
<p>Exceptionally well-preserved specimens of a new cypridid ostracode (Crustacea), <em>Raepula ira</em> sp. nov., are described from palaeolake sediments of the Middle Miocene Barstow Formation of the Mud Hills, southern California.
This is only the second occurrence of exceptionally preserved ostracodes from the Miocene. Based on ages obtained from associated
volcanic tuffs the palaeolake sediments were deposited between 16.3 and 15.8 Ma. The ostracodes form one element of a diverse
lake community dominated by fairy shrimps, copepods, diatoms, larvae of diving beetles, flies and mosquitoes, and body fossils
and ephippia of branchiopods and anomopods. The ostracodes are preserved three dimensionally with their soft anatomy replicated
in microcrystalline silica. Submicron-scale details such as sensory setae are preserved, surpassing the resolution of most
other ostracode-bearing lagerstätten and allowing their biology to be compared with extant taxa.
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