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Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2016
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Title
Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany
Published in
BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z
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Jason A. Dunlop, David A. Legg, Paul A. Selden, Victor Fet, Joerg W. Schneider, Ronny Rößler

Abstract

Paleozoic scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones) have been widely documented from the Carboniferous Period; which hosts a remarkable assemblage of more than sixty species including both putative stem- and crown-group fossils. By contrast the succeeding Permian Period is almost completely devoid of records, which are currently restricted to a trace fossil from the early Permian of New Mexico, USA and some limb fragments from the late Permian of the Vologda Region, Russia. ?Opsieobuthus tungeri sp. nov. from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany represents the first complete body fossils of scorpions from the Permian. Explosive volcanism preserved these remarkable specimens in situ as part of the palaeosol horizon and bedrock of the Petrified Forest, immediately beneath the Zeisigwald tuff horizon. This dates to the early Permian (Sakmarian) or ca. 291 Ma. Intriguingly, the specimens were obtained from a palaeosol horizon with a compacted network of different-sized woody roots and thus have been preserved in situ in their likely life position, even within their original burrows. Differences in the structure of the comb-like pectines in the two fossils offer evidence for sexual dimorphism, and permit further inferences about the ecology and perhaps even the reproductive biology of these animals. As putative members of a Coal Measures genus, these fossils suggest that at least some Carboniferous scorpion lineages extended their range further into the Permian. This contributes towards a picture of scorpion evolution in which both basal and derived (orthostern) forms coexisted for quite some time; probably from the end of the Carboniferous through to at least the mid Triassic.

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Unknown 38 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 21%
Professor 4 11%
Other 4 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 8%
Other 8 21%
Unknown 7 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 39%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 9 24%
Linguistics 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 7 18%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 March 2024.
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