Title
First soft-bodied fossil from the Ordovician of Peru
Date Issued
01 September 2008
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Taylor & Francis
Abstract
Konservat-Lagerstatten are a source of insurmountable information on the diversity of fossil assemblages during the lower Palaeozoic. Soft-bodied fossils are especially rare in South America, but a new locality has been discovered from the Middle Ordovician of Peru that has produced the fairly well-preserved possible palaeoscolecidan Juninscolex ingemmetianum gen. et sp. nov. The distinctive characteristics of this worm make it similar to European taxa within the group.
Start page
313
End page
320
Volume
32
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Paleontología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-49949115157
Source
Alcheringa
ISSN of the container
17520754
Sponsor(s)
We are grateful to the valuable reviews of P. Kraft, X. Zhang and editor S. McLoughlin, as well as to E. Díaz-Martínez (IGME, Spain) for the geological map and to C. Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) for photographic work. We would like to thank the ‘Juan de la Cierva’ Programme of the Spanish Ministerio de Investigación y Ciencia for its financial support to DCGB. This work was carried out through a cooperative agreement between the Spanish and Peruvian geological surveys (IGME and INGEMMET), as part of the activities of the Precambrian and Palaeozoic Group of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and constitutes a contribution to IGCP Project 503 (IUGS-UNESCO).
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