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Mecoptera and Diptera from the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) deposits of Wolfsburg – Große Kley (Lower Saxony, Germany)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2017

Katarzyna Kopeć ,
Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj ,
Alexander Gehler ,
Jörg Ansorge  and
Wiesław Krzemiński
Katarzyna Kopeć
Affiliation:
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-016 Kraków, Poland.
Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj*
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Łódź, 90-237 Łódź, Poland. Email: agnieszka.soszynska@biol.uni.lodz.pl
Alexander Gehler
Affiliation:
Geoscience Museum, Geoscience Centre (GZG), Georg-August University, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
Jörg Ansorge
Affiliation:
Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, 17487 Greifswald, Germany.
Wiesław Krzemiński
Affiliation:
Pedagogical University of Cracow, 30-084 Kraków, Poland.
*
*Corresponding author
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Abstract

Twelve specimens of early Toarcian Mecoptera and Diptera from the vicinity of Wolfsburg were investigated for the present study. The material was found during house building activities in the 1980s at the locality Große Kley in Mörse, an urban district of the city of Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. The specimens were found in calcareous nodules of the Harpoceras falciferum Zone that occur within the Liassic black shales (Posidonia shale). Six specimens of Mecoptera, five belonging to the family Orthophlebiidae and one belonging to the Bittacidae, and six representatives of the following Diptera families were identified: Ptychopteridae, Limoniidae, Anisopodidae and the superfamily Mycetophiloidea. The fossil fauna of Wolfsburg is similar to that of other early Toarcian sites in Germany, described by Handlirsch (1906, 1939), Bode (1905, 1953) and Ansorge (1996) from Braunschweig, Dobbertin and Grimmen. Two new species are described, Mesorhyphusulrichi sp. nov. (Anisopodidae) and Archipleciomima germanica sp. nov. (Mycetophiloidea).

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AnisopodidaeBittacidaeLimoniidaeMesozoicMycetophiloideanematoceransOrthophlebiidaePtychopteridaescorpionflies

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 107 , Issue 2-3: Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber , June 2016 , pp. 163 - 171
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