This book provides essential information on 12 cockroach assemblages with more than a thousand specimens analyzed and investigates the Jurassic site in Bakhar, Mongolia, as one of the most diverse fossil insect sites worldwide. The findings presented here include 32 new cockroach species (of a total of 300 Jurassic species described worldwide). Since several individuals of each species are investigated, the book is the first that contains information on the variability of an Upper Jurassic organism. The wings of the cockroach specimen only rarely show wing deformations, suggesting that the ecological conditions at Bakhar were optimal during that time. The book's content is clearly structured, moving from collection methods, to phylogenetic analyses, to a comparison of global fossil sites. Given its scope, the book appeals to all (Jurassic) paleontologists, botanists and paleoentomologists, as it offers an unbiased counterpart to the extensively studied Daohugou site in China. It is also useful in the mining industry, as the strata contain strategic coal (and other materials).

The first book available on fossil cockroaches Includes a comparison of all major Jurassic cockroach assemblages Investigates a key Jurassic fossil site, revealing the impressive diversity of terrestrial fauna

Inhalt

Introduction .- Material and Methods.- Results.- Systematic part.- Phylogenetically annotated character list.- Character matrix.- Discussion.- Assemblage analysis.- Phylogenetical evaluation.- Within-locality among-bed plylogenetical analysis.- Age separation within locality.- Adjacent Chinese Jurassic.- Middle Jurassic.- Jurassic context.- Paleogeography.- Genus indigenuousity.- Other Jurassic genera.- Triassic link.- Link to Cretaceous insects.- Specific Cretaceous amber.- Climatic inferences.- Coloration.- Taphonomy.- Taphonomical differences within packages.- Deformities.- General insect context.- Environment of Bakhar.- Acknowledgements .- References .