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During the volcanic eruption that buried the Chemnitz forest one unlucky Early Permian day, the soil fauna had no real chance to escape. That\u2019s why bigger tetrapods and insects are missing in the so far recorded assemblage. All elements in the image, however, are based on true fossil evidence from only a few square metres: fronds and fruits, snails underneath deadwood, tiny bones in the litter, and a scorpion\u2019s lair using a living root for stabilisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital painting of the soil fauna of the Chemnitz Petrified Forest, featuring Opsieobuthus tungeri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3766,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pn_jahr":"2016","pn_taxon":"Opsieobuthus tungeri","pn_auftraggeber":"","pn_ausstellung":"","pn_masse":"","pn_quelle_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12862-016-0634-z","pn_lizenz":"\u00a9 Palaeonavix","pn_alt_url":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/index.php\/palaeo-illustration\/fossil-scorpion","pn_mitwirkende":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[158],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-palaeo-illustration"],"acf":{"pn_jahr":"2016","pn_taxon":"Opsieobuthus tungeri","pn_auftraggeber":"","pn_ausstellung":"","pn_masse":"","pn_quelle_url":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12862-016-0634-z","pn_lizenz":"\u00a9 Palaeonavix","pn_mitwirkende":"","pn_verwandte":[3542],"pn_links":null,"pn_publikationen":[{"zitat":"Dunlop, Jason A.; Legg, David A.; Selden, Paul A.; Fet, Victor; Schneider, Joerg W.; R\u00f6\u00dfler, Ronny (2016). 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