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Palaxius salataensis Brönnimann, Cros and Zaninetti, 1972, the oldest crustacean microcoprolite from the early Carboniferous of Guangxi, South China

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Palaxius salataensis Brönnimann, Cros and Zaninetti, 1972 is described from early Carboniferous stromatolite mounds of a fore-reef slope setting from Laibin, Guangxi, South China. This is the oldest occurrence of internally structured crustacean coprolites. The geographic distribution and stratigraphic range of the ichnospecies as well as paleoecological implications of this new record of P. salataensis are discussed.

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Ein Vorkommen von Palaxius salataensis Brönnimann, Cros und Zaninetti, 1972 in stromatolithischen Kalksteinen aus einem Vorriff- bis Hang-Ablagerungsbereich nahe der Stadt Laibin (Guangxi, Südchina) wird beschrieben. Es handelt sich um das älteste bisher beschriebene Vorkommen von Crustaceen-Koprolithen mit Internstrukturen. Neben geographischer Verbreitung und stratigraphischer Reichweite wird die paläoökologische Signifikanz des neuen Fundes von P. salataensis diskutiert.

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Acknowledgements

Daniel Birgel (Hamburg) and Dong Feng (Guangzhou) helped collecting the samples. We thank Leopold Slawek (Vienna) for preparation of thin sections and Anja Peckmann (Hamburg) for preparation of Figs. 1 and 2. The fieldtrip to Guangxi in February 2013 was financed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant: 41502113). Comments by Joachim Blau (Frankfurt) and Diego Kietzmann (Buenos Aires) helped improve the manuscript.

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  1. Geozentrum Nordbayern, Section Paleontology, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

    Baba Senowbari-Daryan & Katrin Heindel

  2. Department für Geodynamik und Sedimentologie, Universität Wien, 1090, Wien, Austria

    Amro Gad El Rab

  3. Institut für Geowissenschaften, J.W. Goethe-Universität, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Eberhard Gischler

  4. Institut für Geologie, Universität Hamburg, 20146, Hamburg, Germany

    Jörn Peckmann

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Senowbari-Daryan, B., El Rab, A.G., Heindel, K. et al. Palaxius salataensis Brönnimann, Cros and Zaninetti, 1972, the oldest crustacean microcoprolite from the early Carboniferous of Guangxi, South China. PalZ 91, 299–305 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-017-0355-7

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