Abstract
Two remains of copepods, representing most parts of the animals, have been recovered in a Late Pleistocene sample (vegetation phase 1b) from a core of the sediments of Lake Balaton in Hungary. One of these remains is of a diaptomid, apparently moulting (Fig. 1), and the other is of a cyclopoid copepod. With the exception of various parts of these bodies found in the superficial lake sediments and of spermatophores found in bogs, there are very few well documented remains of the animals themselves, and none is from the Pleistocene1. The good preservation of the cope-pod chitin in this case can probably be attributed to some favourable environmental conditions in the relevant layers of sediments in Lake Balaton.
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SEBESTYÉN, O. Copepod Remains in the Sediments of Lake Balaton, Hungary. Nature 219, 258 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219258a0
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