Shell structure of Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous craniids (Brachiopoda) and its systematic significance

1997 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 998-1007 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. N. Smirnova
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Shell Structure ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Primary Layer ◽  
Systematic Significance ◽  
The Family

Shell structure has been studied in two species of the family Craniidae Menke, 1828, from the Upper Jurassic of East Ukraine and from the Lower Cretaceous of Crimea, South Ukraine. These species belong to the new genus Mesocrania—M. barskovi (Smirnova, 1972) and M. condylata new species. A layer of coarse regular rhomboidal crystallites was discovered between the primary layer of acicular crystallites and the secondary laminar layer. Branching punctae canals were observed in M. barskovi.

Jurodidae (Coleoptera: Archostemata) from Transbaikalia: new findings and redescription of type material

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
EVGENY V. YAN ◽  
OLESYA D. STRELNIKOVA ◽  
ALEXANDER G. PONOMARENKO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Type Material ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Family

Two species of Jurodidae: Jurodes ignoramus and Jurodes minor are redescribed, new characters presented, and characters from original descriptions are phylogenetically reevaluated, justifying a placement of the family within the suborder Archostemata. The new species Jurodes shef sp. nov. from the Lower Cretaceous locality Khasurty (Berriasian-Barremian, Zakamenskiy district, Buryatia Republic, Russia) is described and 2 new specimens of J. ignoramus Ponomarenko, 1985 and 5 additional specimens of J. minor Ponomarenko, 1990 are recorded. Jurodids from Khasurty are morphologically closer to those from Daohugou locality (Middle–Upper Jurassic, Inner Mongolia, China).

A new Chifengiinae species (Orthoptera: Prophalangopsidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Liaoning, P.R. China)

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Fang ◽  
Haichun Zhang ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Daran Zheng
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Anterior Margin ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Yixian Formation ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new species of the family Prophalangopsidae, Ashanga borealis sp.n., is described from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Fomation (Liaoning Province, P.R. China). The male forewing of the new species is similar to that of the Middle/Upper Jurassic species Ashanga clara Zherikhin 1985, but differs from it in possessing a forewing arched anterior margin, RS branching more basally, and MP + CuA1 with more branches. The fossil record of Chifengiinae is reviewed.

The Mesozoic family Archizelmiridae (Diptera: Insecta)

2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Grimaldi ◽  
Dalton De Souza Amorim ◽  
Vladimir Blagoderov
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Gall Midges ◽  
Fungus Gnats ◽  
Lower Aptian ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cretaceous Period ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Transformation Series

A nematocerous fly family known previously only from one species and specimen from the Upper Jurassic of Karatau, Kazakhstan, Archizelmiridae is expanded here to include additional records preserved as compression fossils and ones in amber. The compressions are from the Upper Jurassic of Shar-Teg, Mongolia and Lower Cretaceous of Baissa, Transbaikal, with a new species, Archizelmira baissa, from Baissa. Particularly significant are three finely preserved new species and genera in ambers from the Cretaceous Period: Zelmiarcha lebanensis (Lebanon: Lower Aptian), Archimelzira americana (New Jersey: Turonian), and Burmazelmira aristica (Burma [Myanmar]: mid-Cretaceous). The latter two species interestingly possess stylate antennae, those of Burmazelmira being the only aristate antennae in the order Diptera outside the suborder Brachycera. A cladogram is presented for the relationships among archizelmirid species, cladistic rank of which correlates with stratigraphic age. Transformation series of the antennal flagellum in Archizelmiridae corresponds with one recently hypothesized for the Brachycera, wherein the style and arista are derived from the apical flagellomere(s). The family appears to be a member of the extant group Sciaroidea, which includes fungus gnats and gall midges, though precise relationships remain unclear.

The new fossil lacewings of Grammolingiidae (Neuroptera) from the Jurassic of Central Asia and Mongolia, with notes on biogeography of the family

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3478 (1) ◽  
pp. 297-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXANDER V. KHRAMOV
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
The South ◽  
The Family ◽  
Three New Species

A new genus and three new species of the family Grammolingiidae are described: Protolingia mira gen. et sp. nov. andLitholingia longa sp. nov. from the Sai-Sagul locality (Kyrgyzstan, upper Lower Jurassic–lower Middle Jurassic) and Lep-tolingia oblonga sp. nov. from the Houtiyn-Hotgor locality (Mongolia, Upper Jurassic). Grammolingiidae are recordedfrom the Karatau locality (Kazakhstan, Upper Jurassic). This fossil lacewing family occurred in the South of Central Asiaand in East Asia during the Middle and Upper Jurassic; its distribution was limited by Mongol-Okhotsk and Turgai seas.Grammolingiidae from Sai-Sagul is the oldest record of this family. They demonstrate unusual characteristics for the family, such as the pectinate CuP and the distal fusion of Sc and R1.

A new genus and species of Chresmodidae (Insecta: Gryllones) from Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Yixian Formation, Inner Mongolia, China

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1702 (1) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIN-WEN ZHANG ◽  
DONG REN ◽  
HONG PANG ◽  
CHUNG-KUN SHIH
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Yixian Formation ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
A New Species

A new genus with a new species of Chresmodidae (Insecta: Gryllones), Sinochresmoda magnicornia gen. et sp. nov., including specimens of male, female and nymph, is described and illustrated. These fossils were collected from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Yixian Formation of Liutiaogou Village, Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol Autonomous Region), China. Both male and female possess wings, and have sexual dimorphism in antenna. Antennae of male are highly specialized and horn-shaped, incurvated as horn with the scape strongly expanded, and the first segment of the flagella incurvated as a pair of brackets, while antennae of female are normally filiform. Wings of the new species are short, not exceeding the length of the abdomen. Fringe hairs along the wing margins, a unique feature for Chresmodidae, are dense, wavy and bundled together. Nymphs and adults probably lived in the same environment. In addition, one specimen demonstrates the extraordinary structure of tarsus with a high number of “tarsomeres”, which has been reported in other species of this family.

A new species of Crenoptychoptera Kalugina, 1985 (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) from the Middle–Late Jurassic of Jiyuan Basin, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 027-029
Author(s):  
YU-MING LIU ◽  
DI-YING HUANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
Upper Triassic ◽  
The Family ◽  
Extinct Genus ◽  
A New Species

Ptychopteridae is an ancient and rather diverse nematoceran family with three extant and 12 fossil genera subdivided into 80 extinct species belonging to five subfamilies (Eskov & Lukashevich, 2015; Lukashevich, 2019, 2020; Liu & Huang, 2020). Several undescribed ptychopterid larvae from the Upper Triassic of Germany represent the oldest record of the family (Barth et al., 2011). Crenoptychoptera Kalugina, 1985, an extinct genus belonging to the subfamily Eoptychopterinae Handlirsch, 1906, includes seven described species. All these species were recorded from the Lower Jurassic to the Lower Cretaceous of Eurasia: C. dobbertinensis Ansorge, 1998 from the Lower Jurassic of the Former Clay in Germany (Lukashevich et al., 1998), C. conspecta Lukashevich, 1995 from the Lower Jurassic of Ust-Baley in Russia (Lukashevich, 1995), the type species C. antica Kalugina, 1985 and C. defossa Kalugina, 1985 from the Middle Jurassic of the Kubekovo in Russia (Kalugina & Kovalev, 1985), C. bavarica Krzemiński & Ansorge, 1995 from the Upper Jurassic of Wegscheid in Germany (Krzemiński & Ansorge, 1995), C. liturata Lukashevich, 2011 from Upper Jurassic of Shar Teg in Mongolia, and C. gronskayae Kalugina, 1989 from the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous of Kempendyay in Russia (Kalugina, 1989; Lukashevich, 2011). Three species discovered from the Daohugou beds of China have been assigned to Crenoptychoptera (Hao et al., 2009), but a following study suggested that they should be placed in Axymyiidae (Zhang, 2010).

Cryptofavognathus, a new genus of the family Cryptognathidae Oudemans (Acari: Raphignathoidea), with the description of a new species from Turkey

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2533 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
SALİH DOĞAN ◽  
GÜLDEM DÖNEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Adult Female ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

A new genus, Cryptofavognathus is proposed for two species, Cryptofavognathus afyonensis (Koç & Akyol, 2004) comb. nov. and C. anatolicus sp. nov. The adult female and male of C. anatolicus sp. nov. collected from moss and a bird’s nest are herein described and figured.

Cassiavellia galtarae, new species, new genus: a new Permian bivalve and its significance for pterioidean systematics

2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 1152-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Tëmkin ◽  
John Pojeta
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Larval Shell ◽  
Upper Permian ◽  
Taxonomic Significance ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
The Family ◽  
Dental Ontogeny

An exceptionally well-preserved silicified bivalve from the Upper Permian of Texas is described and assigned to a new genus and species,Cassiavellia galtarae, placed in the family Bakevelliidae. The species represents one of the earliest and best characterized unequivocal occurrences of the multivincular ligament in the superfamily Pterioidea. The silicified material provides a wealth of information on the morphology of inadequately known Paleozoic pterioideans, including hitherto undescribed aspects of the larval shell, auricular sulcus, muscle scars, and dental ontogeny. The discovery of the condyle-fossa complex on the anteroventral shell margin, a feature previously undescibed in Bivalvia, raises the question of the homology and taxonomic significance of the problematic subumbonal ridge-like structures in Pterioidea. In life,C. galtaraewas probably an epifaunal right-pleurothetic bivalve, byssally attached to hard or raised flexible substrata. In addition toC. galtarae, another new species,C. nadkevnae, is placed inCassiavellia.

New genus and four new species of the family Cunaxidae (Acariformes: Prostigmata: Bdelloidea) from Zambia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabella Laniecka ◽  
Ronald Laniecki ◽  
Andrzej Kazmierski
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Family

New genus and four new species of the family Cunaxidae: Quasiscutopalus impala gen. nov., sp. nov., Armascirus livingstoni sp. nov., Cunaxa mukuni sp. nov. and Cunaxa niedbalai sp. nov. are described and figured from Zambia. Additionally, Cunaxa gazella (Berlese, 1916) is recorded and discussed.

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