Oviposition-Scars On A Calamite Stem From The Westphalian D Of The Piesberg, Germany
Dear all,
It was difficult, very difficult to wait with posting, since I am very, very excited about this fossil find. However, I also wanted the Dutch magazine version to come out first. Well, it finally did this Tuesday, so here is some info in English, along with a couple of the figures.
During a visit to the Piesberg near Osnabrück (Germany) in 2010, I found a stem fragment of Calamites decorated with strange, elongate-oval structures [Fig. 1]. While those features were unusual and quite r
My apologies for reviving this long-dead thread, but recently an interesting paper was published on the earliest record of exophytic oviposition (as opposed to endophytic) from the Gzhelian of Germany by Laass and Hauschke (2019). Beautiful trace fossils and ditto interpretation. The paper also provides a rather nice overview of the Palaeozoic fossil record of oviposition scars, including a reference to the Piesberg-specimen discussed in this thread, which is now officially listed as the oldest
