caa a22 4500 445839503 CHVBK 20180317145339.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00015-010-0033-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00015-010-0033-1 The importance of lithographic limestones for revealing ontogenies in fossil crustaceans [Elektronische Daten] [Joachim Haug, Carolin Haug, Dieter Waloszek, Günter Schweigert] Developmental biology has become a major issue for understanding the evolution of Arthropoda. While usually only the ontogenies of extant species are studied, developmental information of fossil arthropods may exhibit developmental patterns not present in living ones. Crustacea possess, basically, a more gradual development than, for example, pterygote insects and would, therefore, be appropriate candidates for the study of fossil ontogenies. Remarkably, famous fossil deposits like the Devonian Rhynie Chert or the Early Palaeozoic ‘Orsten'-type deposits do not comprise the generally macroscopic malacostracan Crustacea (although most probably adult malacostracan fossils have already been found in the Cambrian). By contrast, the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones of southern Germany provide thousands of specimens (although only few morphotypes) that can be identified as malacostracan larvae, together with juvenile specimens differing in certain morphological aspects from their conspecific adults. More recent investigations with up-to-date imaging methodology on additional malacostracan crustacean larvae yielded also reconstructible developmental sequences of species from the Solnhofen deposits. The very similar fossil deposits of the Cretaceous lithographic limestones of Lebanon have also yielded malacostracan larvae and juvenile specimens. We present a summary of the occurrences of crustacean fossils providing developmental information and a demonstration of the potential of the lithographic limestones in this context. The importance of developmental data for understanding crustacean evolution is also highlighted. Swiss Geological Society, 2010 Larvae nationallicence Phyllosoma nationallicence Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones nationallicence Ontogenetic development nationallicence Phylogeny nationallicence Evolution nationallicence Haug Joachim Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Helmholtzstr. 20, 89081, Ulm, Germany aut Haug Carolin Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Helmholtzstr. 20, 89081, Ulm, Germany aut Waloszek Dieter Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Helmholtzstr. 20, 89081, Ulm, Germany aut Schweigert Günter Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191, Stuttgart, Germany aut Swiss Journal of Geosciences SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 104(2011-12-01), 85-98 1661-8726 104<85 2011 104 15 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00015-010-0033-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00015-010-0033-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Haug Joachim Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Helmholtzstr. 20, 89081, Ulm, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Haug Carolin Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Helmholtzstr. 20, 89081, Ulm, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Waloszek Dieter Biosystematic Documentation, University of Ulm, Helmholtzstr. 20, 89081, Ulm, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schweigert Günter Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191, Stuttgart, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Swiss Journal of Geosciences SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 104(2011-12-01), 85-98 1661-8726 104<85 2011 104 15 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer