Dear Editor,Hatching is a crucial moment in the life of an animal.The animal stops being an embryo protected by the egg and becomes a post-embryonic immature(see Haug,2020 for difficulties in naming these stages).This...Dear Editor,Hatching is a crucial moment in the life of an animal.The animal stops being an embryo protected by the egg and becomes a post-embryonic immature(see Haug,2020 for difficulties in naming these stages).This must have been the case in the past as well,but the fossil record is rather sparse in the preservation of this very moment.The fossil preservation of such a case needs to facilitate not only preservation of the animal,but also of the egg.As these are often of rather different material,making the preservation of both together in many cases unlikely.Yet,there are preservation types that seem to favor such incidents.Amber has become famous for preserving cases of“frozen behaviour",preserving a specific moment in the life of an animal in an almost life-like manner(Arillo,2007),including:copulations,parasite-host interactions,aggregations,group defense,brood care,egg-laying(although likely stress-induced).展开更多
基金Part of the project was supported by the German Research Foundation under DFG Ha 6300/6-1.
文摘Dear Editor,Hatching is a crucial moment in the life of an animal.The animal stops being an embryo protected by the egg and becomes a post-embryonic immature(see Haug,2020 for difficulties in naming these stages).This must have been the case in the past as well,but the fossil record is rather sparse in the preservation of this very moment.The fossil preservation of such a case needs to facilitate not only preservation of the animal,but also of the egg.As these are often of rather different material,making the preservation of both together in many cases unlikely.Yet,there are preservation types that seem to favor such incidents.Amber has become famous for preserving cases of“frozen behaviour",preserving a specific moment in the life of an animal in an almost life-like manner(Arillo,2007),including:copulations,parasite-host interactions,aggregations,group defense,brood care,egg-laying(although likely stress-induced).
