Holocene insect remains from south-western Greenland

Polar research

Ole Bennike¹  Bernd Wagner²  Jens Böcher³ 

[1] Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Øster Voldgade 10DK-1350 Copenhagen K Denmark;Institute for Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne Zülpicher Str. 49aDE-50674 Cologne Germany;Zoological Museum, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen Universitetsparken 15DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Correspondence

关键词: Greenland;    Arctic;    Holocene;    insects;    beetles;    palaeoenvironments;   

DOI  :  10.3402/polar.v31i0.18367

学科分类：自然科学（综合）

来源: Co-Action Publishing

【 摘 要 】

Remains of plants and invertebrates from Holocene deposits in south-western Greenland include a number of insect fragments from Heteroptera and Coleoptera. Some of the finds extend the known temporal range of the species considerably back in time, and one of the taxa has not previously been found in Greenland either fossil or extant. The fossil fauna includes the weevil Rutidosoma globulus which is at present extremely rare in Greenland. Its rarity might indicate that it is a recent immigrant, but the fossil finds provide a minimum date for its arrival at around 5840 cal. years B.P. Other remains of terrestrial insects complement the scarce fossil Greenland record of the species concerned.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC