Introduction to thematic volume “Fossil arthropods in Late Cretaceous Vendean amber (northwestern France)”

Authors

  • Vincent Perrichot CNRS UMR 6118 Géosciences & OSUR, Université Rennes 1, 263 avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes, France; University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA

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https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15981

Abstract

There is growing knowledge of the insect and arachnid Cretaceous diversity worldwide, most notably as a result of the discovery, in the past twenty years, of numerous Konservat-Lagerstätten (highly fossiliferous deposits) that provide a plethora of fossil arthropods (Wang & Szwedo, 2014). Early Cretaceous (Berriasian–Aptian) insects are known primarily from imprints in rocks, while fossiliferous amber yielding arthropod inclusions range mostly from the Albian to the Campanian – the sole exception being Hauterivian-Barremian amber of Lebanon and Jordan.

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2014-12-01

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Perrichot, Vincent. 2014. “Introduction to Thematic Volume ‘Fossil Arthropods in Late Cretaceous Vendean Amber (northwestern France)’”. Paleontological Contributions, no. 10 (December): 1-4. https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15981.