Enlightening complexity. The Dimylidae of Petersbuch 28

Author(s)
Johannes Klietmann, Doris Nagel, Michael Rummel, Lars W van den Hoek Ostende
Abstract

The Bavarian fissure filling Petersbuch 28 (Lower Miocene, MN 3/4) yielded a large assemblage of the dimylid Plesiodimylus aff. chantrei. This assemblage includes molars of three incompletely differentiated morphotypes, resembling Plesiodimylus huerzeleri, P. chantrei and P. bavaricus, respectively. This pattern is interpreted as due to ecological reasons and a small time averaging. The lower molars do not show such differentiation. Next to Plesiodimylus, Chainodus intercedens was found, but in far smaller numbers.

Organisation(s)
Department of Palaeontology
External organisation(s)
Naturmuseum Augsburg, Naturalis
Journal
Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
Volume
94
Pages
463–479
No. of pages
17
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-013-0137-5
Publication date
2014
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
105118 Palaeontology
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Geology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Palaeontology, Ecology
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/aae9ee6f-b178-4ac0-b5e5-6e5a5d15516b