A synoptic review of the cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali, Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätten of Southern Germany: Taxonomy, diversity, and faunal relationships

Autor(en)
Eduardo Villalobos Segura, Sebastian Stumpf, Julia Türtscher, Patrick Leopold Jambura, Arnaud Begat, Faviel Alejandro López Romero, Jan Fischer, Jürgen Kriwet
Abstrakt

The Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (164–100 Ma) represents one of the main transitional periods in life history. Recent studies unveiled a complex scenario in which abiotic and biotic factors and drivers on regional and global scales due to the fragmentation of Pangaea resulted in dramatic faunal and ecological turnovers in terrestrial and marine environments. However, chondrichthyan faunas from this interval have received surprisingly little recognition. The presence of numerous
entire skeletons of chondrichthyans preserved in several localities in southern Germany, often referred to as Konservat-Lagerstätten (e.g., Nusplingen and the Solnhofen Archipelago), provides a unique opportunity of to study the taxonomic composition of these assemblages, their ecological distributions and adaptations, and evolutionary histories in detail. However, even after 160 years of study, the current knowledge of southern Germany’s Late Jurassic chondrichthyan diversity remains incomplete. Over the last 20 years, the systematic study and bulk sampling of southern Germany’s Late Jurassic deposits significantly increased the number of known fossil chondrichthyan genera from the region (32 in the present study). In the present work, the fossil record, and the taxonomic composition of Late Jurassic chondrichthyans from southern Germany are reviewed and compared with several
contemporaneous assemblages from other sites in Europe. Our results suggest, inter alia, that the Late Jurassic chondrichthyans displayed extended distributions within Europe. However, it nevertheless also is evident that the taxonomy of Late Jurassic chondrichthyans is in urgent need of revision.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Paläontologie
Externe Organisation(en)
Umweltmuseum GEOSKOP
Journal
Diversity
Band
15
Seiten
1-70
Anzahl der Seiten
70
ISSN
1424-2818
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/d15030386
Publikationsdatum
03-2023
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
105118 Paläontologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Ecological Modelling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Ecology
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 14 – Leben unter Wasser
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