Exceptionally preserved ostracodes from a Middle Miocene palaeolake, California, USA

Wilkinson, I.P.; Wilby, P.R.; Williams, M.; Siveter, D.J.; Page, A.A.; Leggitt, L.; Riley, D.A.. 2010 Exceptionally preserved ostracodes from a Middle Miocene palaeolake, California, USA. Journal of the Geological Society, 167 (4). 817-825. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492009-178

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Abstract/Summary

Exceptionally well-preserved specimens of a new cypridid ostracode (Crustacea), Raepula ira sp. nov., are described from palaeolake sediments of the Middle Miocene Barstow Formation of the Mud Hills, southern California. This is only the second occurrence of exceptionally preserved ostracodes from the Miocene. Based on ages obtained from associated volcanic tuffs the palaeolake sediments were deposited between 16.3 and 15.8 Ma. The ostracodes form one element of a diverse lake community dominated by fairy shrimps, copepods, diatoms, larvae of diving beetles, flies and mosquitoes, and body fossils and ephippia of branchiopods and anomopods. The ostracodes are preserved three dimensionally with their soft anatomy replicated in microcrystalline silica. Submicron-scale details such as sensory setae are preserved, surpassing the resolution of most other ostracode-bearing lagerstätten and allowing their biology to be compared with extant taxa. Supplementary material: Red–blue anaglyphs of the exceptionally preserved ostracodes are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18407.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-76492009-178
Programmes:	BGS Programmes 2010 > BGS Corporate
ISSN:	0016-7649
Date made live:	30 Jun 2010 12:31 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079

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