The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit

  1. Smith, Krister T. ORCID logo
  2. Collinson, Margaret
  3. Folie, Annelise ORCID logo
  4. Habersetzer , Jörg ORCID logo
  5. Hennicke, Florian ORCID logo
  6. Kothe, Erika ORCID logo
  7. Lehmann, Thomas ORCID logo
  8. Lenz, Olaf K. ORCID logo
  9. Mayr, Gerald ORCID logo
  10. Micklich, Norbert ORCID logo
  11. Rabenstein, Renate ORCID logo
  12. Racicot, Rachel ORCID logo
  13. Schaal, Stephan F. K.
  14. Smith, Thierry ORCID logo
  15. Tosal, Aixa ORCID logo
  16. Uhl, Dieter ORCID logo
  17. Wappler, Torsten ORCID logo
  18. Wedmann, Sonja ORCID logo
  19. Wuttke, Michael ORCID logo

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  • The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit
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  1. Smith, Krister T. |
  2. Collinson, Margaret |
  3. Folie, Annelise |
  4. Habersetzer , Jörg |
  5. Hennicke, Florian |
  6. Kothe, Erika |
  7. Lehmann, Thomas |
  8. Lenz, Olaf K. |
  9. Mayr, Gerald |
  10. Micklich, Norbert |
  11. Rabenstein, Renate |
  12. Racicot, Rachel |
  13. Schaal, Stephan F. K. |
  14. Smith, Thierry |
  15. Tosal, Aixa |
  16. Uhl, Dieter |
  17. Wappler, Torsten |
  18. Wedmann, Sonja |
  19. Wuttke, Michael |
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  • 2024-12-31
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  • 104(4):859-940
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  • https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-024-00633-2 |
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  • <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The Messel Pit is a <jats:italic>Konservat-Lagerstätte</jats:italic> in Germany, representing the deposits of a latest early to earliest middle Eocene maar lake, and one of the first palaeontological sites to be included on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. One aspect of Messel that makes it so extraordinary is that its sediments are rich in different fossilised organisms – microfossils, plants, fungi, invertebrate animals and vertebrates – that are rarely preserved together. We present an updated list of all taxa, named or not, that have been documented at Messel, comprising 1409 taxa, which represent a smaller but inexactly known number of biological species. The taxonomic list of Labandeira and Dunne (2014) contains serious deficiencies and should not be used uncritically. Furthermore, we compiled specimen lists of all Messel amphibians, reptiles and mammals known to us. In all, our analyses incorporate data from 32 public collections and some 20 private collections. We apply modern biodiversity-theoretic techniques to ascertain how species richness tracks sampling, to estimate what is the minimum asymptotic species richness, and to project how long it will take to sample a given proportion of that minimum richness. Plant and insect diversity is currently less well investigated than vertebrate diversity. Completeness of sampling in aquatic and semiaquatic, followed by volant, vertebrates is higher than in terrestrial vertebrates. Current excavation rates are one-half to two-thirds lower than in the recent past, leading to much higher estimates of the future excavation effort required to sample species richness more completely, should these rates be maintained. Species richness at Messel, which represents a lake within a paratropical forest near the end of the Early Eocene Climate Optimum, was generally higher than in comparable parts of Central Europe today but lower than in present-day Neotropical biotopes. There is no evidence that the Eocene Messel ecosystem was a “tropical rainforest.”</jats:p>
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lokal Fossil
lokal Sampling
lokal Biodiversity
lokal Extrapolation
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lokal Species richness
lokal Greenhouse climates
lokal Messel
lokal Eocene
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