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The first mainland European Mesozoic click‑beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) revealed by X‑ray micro‑computed tomography scanning of an Upper Cretaceous amber from Hungaryстатья
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Статья опубликована в журнале из списка Web of Science и/или ScopusДата последнего поиска статьи во внешних источниках: 26 января 2022 г.
- Авторы: Szabó M., Kundrata R., Hoffmannova J., Németh T., Bodor E., Szenti I., Prosvirov A.S., Kukovecz A., Ősi A.
- Журнал: Scientific reports
- Номер: 12
- Год издания: 2022
- Издательство: Nature Publishing Group
- Местоположение издательства: United Kingdom
- Первая страница: 1
- Последняя страница: 11
- Номер статьи: 24
- DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-03573-5
- Аннотация: Fossil bioinclusions in amber are invaluable source of information on the past evolution and diversityof various organisms, as well as on the paleoecosystems in general. The click-beetles, Elateridae,which originated and greatly diversified during the Mesozoic, are mostly known from the adpressionlikefossils, and their diversity in the Cretaceous ambers is only poorly documented. In this study,we describe a new click-beetle based on an incomplete inclusion in ajkaite, an Upper Cretaceous(Santonian) amber from the Ajka Coal Formation from Hungary. We used X-ray micro-computedtomography scanning to reconstruct its morphology because it is deposited in an opaque piece ofamber. Our results suggest that the newly described Ajkaelater merkli gen. et sp. nov. belongs tosubfamily Elaterinae. It represents the first Mesozoic beetle reported from Hungary, and the firstMesozoic Elateridae formally described from mainland Europe. Our discovery supports an Eurasiandistribution and diversification of Elaterinae already in the Cretaceous. The paleoenvironment ofthe Ajka Coal Formation agrees well with the presumed habitat preference of the new fossil taxon.The discovery of a presumably saproxylic click-beetle shed further light on the yet poorly knownpaleoecosystem of the Santonian present-day western Hungary.
- Добавил в систему: Просвиров Александр Сергеевич