V.—The Eocene Insects of the Ardtun Beds, Isle of Mull, Scotland
V.—The Eocene Insects of the Ardtun Beds, Isle of Mull, Scotland
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DOI：
10.1080/00222934108527141
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发表时间：
1941
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0.8
通讯作者：
F. E. Zeuner
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作者：
F. E. Zeuner
马尔岛上阿尔顿海德的玄武岩间植物床产生了一个小型但有趣的昆虫动物群，下面几页将对此进行描述和讨论。植物群已被反复调查，并讨论了化石层位的时代。它们以前被认为是中新世，主要受O.Heer的影响，但现在被认为可能是始新世早期。Seward和Holttom(1924)以及Seward、Edwards和Simpson(1938)发表了关于Ardtun床的调查历史、植物区系本身和文献的摘要。阿尔伯特·西沃德爵士和WN爱德华兹先生的植物专著正在准备中，并将由大英博物馆(自然历史)的受托人出版。加德纳(1887年)首次报告了这些床层中的昆虫化石，他发现了甲虫的电子加速器和一只后翅，他认为这是蝉科昆虫，尽管它显然属于蝉。他的标本现在无法追踪。1921年，Cockerell描述了甲虫的三个鞘翅目，并命名其中一种(Carabites，Scoticus Cock.)。这一描述被重新发表在苏厄德和霍尔特姆的论文(1924年)上。WN Edwards先生已经能够追溯到另外两个关于昆虫化石的引用，Gregory(1927年，第205页)和Gregory和Barrett(1931年，第206页)提到了一种甲虫和上
The interbasaltic plant-beds of Ardtun Head on the Isle of Mull have yielded a small but interesting fauna of insects which is described and discussed in the following pages. The flora has been repeatedly investigated and the age of the fossfliferous horizons discussed. They were formerly considered as Miocene, chiefly under O. Heer's influence, but they are now regarded as probably of early Eocene age. Summaries of the history of investigation, the flora itself, and the literature on the Ardtun Beds have been published by Seward and Holttum~ 1924) and by Seward, Edwards, and Simpson (1938). A monograph of the flora, by Sir Albert Seward and Mr. WN Edwards, is in preparation, and will be published by the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). The first report on fossil insects enclosed in these beds is by Gardner (1887), who figured an elytron of a beetle and a hind-wing which he believed to be cercopid, though it obviously belongs to the Cicadinse. His specimens cannot now be traced. In 1921 Cockerell described three elytra of beetles, and named one of them (Carabites, scoticus Cock.). The description was republished in Seward and Holttum's paper (1924). Mr. WN Edwards has been able to trace two further references to fossil insects, by Gregory (1927, p. 205) and by Gregory and Barrett (1931, p. 206), mentioning a beetle with Upper