Cockroaches from Jurassic sediments of the Bakhar Formation in Mongolia

This book provides essential information on 12 cockroach assemblages with more than a thousand specimens analyzed and investigates the Jurassic site in Bakhar, Mongolia, as one of the most diverse fossil insect sites worldwide. The findings presented here include 32 new cockroach species (of a total...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vršanský, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
Series:SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Material and Methods
  • Results
  • Systematic part
  • Phylogenetically annotated character list
  • Character matrix
  • Discussion
  • Assemblage analysis
  • Phylogenetical evaluation
  • Within-locality among-bed plylogenetical analysis
  • Age separation within locality
  • Adjacent Chinese Jurassic
  • Middle Jurassic
  • Jurassic context
  • Paleogeography
  • Genus indigenuousity
  • Other Jurassic genera
  • Triassic link
  • Link to Cretaceous insects
  • Specific Cretaceous amber
  • Climatic inferences
  • Coloration
  • Taphonomy
  • Taphonomical differences within packages
  • Deformities
  • General insect context
  • Environment of Bakhar
  • Acknowledgements
  • References