Haemaphysalis cretacea a nymph of a new species of hard tick in Burmese amber

Parasitology ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 145 (11) ◽  
pp. 1440-1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Chitimia-Dobler ◽  
Timo Pfeffer ◽  
Jason A Dunlop
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Hard Tick ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Vertebrate Fauna ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrate ◽  
Permian Mass Extinction ◽  
Tick Genus ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe first fossil potentially assignable to the extant hard tick genus Haemaphysalis CL Koch (1844) (Ixodida: Ixodidae) is described from the Late Cretaceous (ca. 99 Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar. Haemaphysalis (Alloceraea) cretacea sp. nov. is the oldest and only fossil representative of this genus; living members of which predominantly feed on mammals. Their typical hosts are known since at least the Jurassic and the discovery of a mid-Cretaceous parasite, which might have fed on mammals raises again the question of to what extent ticks are coupled to their (modern) host groups. An inferred Triassic split of Argasidae (soft ticks) into the bird-preferring Argasinae and mammal-preferring Ornithodorinae dates to about the time when dinosaurs (later including birds) and mammaliaforms as potential hosts were emerging. Ixodidae may have split into Prostriata and Metastriata shortly after the end-Permian mass extinction, an event which fundamentally altered the terrestrial vertebrate fauna. Prostriata (the genus Ixodes) prefer birds and mammals today, and some may have used groups like cynodonts in the Triassic. Basal metastriate ticks (e.g. Amblyomma) prefer reptiles, but derived metastriates (including Haemaphysalis) again prefer mammals. Here, we may be looking at a younger (Cretaceous?) shift associated with more recent mammalian radiations.

scholarly journals The firstCaipirasuchus(Mesoeucrocodylia, Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Minas Gerais, Brazil: new insights on sphagesaurid anatomy and taxonomy

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín G. Martinelli ◽  
Thiago S. Marinho ◽  
Fabiano V. Iori ◽  
Luiz Carlos B. Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Lower Portion ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Vertebrate Fauna ◽  
Paulo State ◽  
New Material ◽  
Fish Remains ◽  
A New Species

Field work conducted by the staff of the Centro de Pesquisas Paleontológicas Llewellyn Ivor Price of the Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro since 2009 at Campina Verde municipality (MG) have resulted in the discovery of a diverse vertebrate fauna from the Adamantina Formation (Bauru Basin). The baurusuchidCampinasuchus diniziwas described in 2011 from Fazenda Três Antas site and after that, preliminary descriptions of a partial crocodyliform egg, abelisaurid teeth, and fish remains have been done. Recently, the fossil sample has been considerably increased including the discovery of several, partially articulated fish remains referred to Lepisosteiformes and an almost complete and articulated skeleton referred to a new species ofCaipirasuchus(Notosuchia, Sphagesauridae), which is the main subject of this contribution. At present, this genus was restricted to the Adamantina Formation cropping out in São Paulo state, with the speciesCaipirasuchus montealtensis,Caipirasuchus paulistanus, andCaipirasuchus stenognathus. The new material represents the holotype of a new species,Caipirasuchus mineirusn. sp., diferenciated from the previously ones due to the following traits: last two maxillary teeth located posterior to anterior edge of infraorbital fenestra, elongated lateroventral maxillo-jugal suture—about ½ the anteroposterior maxillar length—and contact between posterior crest of quadrate and posterior end of squamosal forming an almost 90° flaring roof of the squamosal, among others.C. mineiruswas found in the same outcrop thanCampinasuchusbut stratigraphically the former occurs in the lower portion of the section with no unambiguous data supporting the coexistance of both taxa.

End-Permian mass extinction of foraminifers in the Nanpanjiang basin, South China

2009 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 718-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haijun Song ◽  
Jinnan Tong ◽  
Z. Q. Chen ◽  
Hao Yang ◽  
Yongbiao Wang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
South China ◽  
Contact Surface ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Extinction Rates ◽  
Extinction Event ◽  
Permian Extinction ◽  
Permian Mass Extinction ◽  
A New Species

Newly obtained foraminifer faunas from the Permian-Triassic (P-Tr) transition at the Dajiang and Bianyang sections in the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China, comprise 61 species in 40 genera. They belong to thePalaeofusulina sinensisZone, the youngest Permian foraminifer zone in South China. Quantitative analysis reveals that the last occurrences of more than a half of species (28/54) fall into a 60-cm-interval at the uppermost Changhsingian skeletal packstone unit and thus calibrate the end-Permian extinction to the skeletal packstonecalcimicrobial framestone boundary. About 93% (54/58) of species of the latest Permian assemblage became extinct in the P-Tr crisis. Four major foraminiferal groups, the Miliolida, Fusulinida, Lagenida, and Textulariina, have extinction rates up to 100%, 96%, 92%, and 50%, respectively, and thus experienced selective extinctions. BothHemigordius longusand ?Globivalvulina bulloidestemporarily survived the end-Permian extinction event and extended into the earliest Triassic but became extinct soon after. The post-extinction foraminifer assemblage is characterized by the presence of both disaster taxa and Lazarus taxa. Foraminifer distribution near the P-Tr boundary also reveals that the irregular contact surface at the uppermost Permian may be created by a massive submarine dissolution event, which may be coeval with the end-Permian mass extinction. A new species,Rectostipulina hexamerata,is described here.

scholarly journals The earliest mammal of the European Paleocene: The multituberculateHainina

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 701-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Peláez-Campomanes ◽  
N. López-Martínez ◽  
M.A. Álvarez-Sierra ◽  
R. Daams
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Late Paleocene ◽  
The Family ◽  
Extinction Event ◽  
Masticatory System ◽  
Mass Extinction Event ◽  
A New Species

A new species of multituberculate mammal,Hainina pyrenaican. sp. is described from Fontllonga-3 (Tremp Basin, Southern Pyrenees, Spain), correlated to the later part of chron C29r just above the K/T boundary. This taxon represents the earliest European Tertiary mammal recovered so far, and is related to otherHaininaspecies from the European Paleocene. A revision of the species ofHaininaallows recognition of a new species,H. vianeyaen. sp. from the Late Paleocene of Cernay (France). The genus is included in the family Kogaionidae Rãdulescu and Samson, 1996 from the Late Cretaceous of Romania on the basis of unique dental characters. The Kogaionidae had a peculiar masticatory system with a large, blade-like lower p4, similar to that of advanced Ptilodontoidea, but occluding against two small upper premolars, interpreted as P4 and P5, instead of a large upper P4. The endemic European Kogaionidae derive from an Early Cretaceous group with five premolars, and evolved during the Late Cretaceous and Paleocene. The genusHaininarepresents a European multituberculate family that survived the K/T boundary mass extinction event.

scholarly journals Description of a new species of Eucinetidae (Coleoptera, Scirtoidea) from Cretaceous Burmese amber

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 982 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Xueyong Du ◽  
Adam Slipinski ◽  
Zhenhua Liu ◽  
Hong Pang
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
The Family ◽  
A New Species

Eucinetus parvussp. nov. is described from late Cretaceous Burmese amber, representing the second record of Eucinetidae from the Burmese amber and the first species of the family with simple, not piercing, mouthparts. A comparison between Mesocinetidae and Eucinetidae is provided.

New empidoid flies (Diptera: Atelestidae; Dolichopodidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
CORENTIN JOUAULT ◽  
VALÉRIE NGÔ-MULLER ◽  
QINGQING ZHANG ◽  
ANDRÉ NEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Late Jurassic ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
A New Species

Examination of mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber reveals a new species of Atelestidae: Alavesia myanmarensis sp. nov., and the female of the dolichopodid Microphorites pouilloni Ngô-Muller & Nel, 2020. Both are described and illustrated. Alavesia myanmarensis sp. nov. is the first species of Alavesia from the mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. The oldest records of this genus of small Diptera are from the Early to Late Cretaceous ambers of Spain, while the Burmese amber was probably produced on an island during the mid-Cretaceous, which had separated from Gondwana during the Jurassic. It suggests a possible Late Jurassic origin of the genus Alavesia.

scholarly journals Amblyomma birmitum a new species of hard tick in Burmese amber

Parasitology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 144 (11) ◽  
pp. 1441-1448 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIDIA CHITIMIA-DOBLER ◽  
BRUNO CANCIAN DE ARAUJO ◽  
BERNHARD RUTHENSTEINER ◽  
TIMO PFEFFER ◽  
JASON A. DUNLOP
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
Divergence Time ◽  
Hard Tick ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Divergence Time Estimates ◽  
Time Estimates ◽  
Gondwana Supercontinent ◽  
Tick Genus ◽  
Radiation Time ◽  
A New Species

SUMMARYAmblyomma birmitum sp. nov. is formally described as a new record from 99 Ma old Burmese amber from Myanmar. This confirms the presence of the extant hard tick genus Amblyomma C.L. Koch, 1844 (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in the Late Cretaceous. This discovery is placed in its wider context and some reports of fossil hard ticks, such as a Hyalomma C.L. Koch, 1844 in Eocene Baltic amber, are misidentifications. The genus Amblyomma belongs to the clade Metastriata, a group which probably also accommodates two extinct genera, Cornupalpatum Poinar and Brown, 2003 and Compluriscutata Poinar and Buckley, 2008, also found in Burmese amber. All three fossils are thus only a little younger than published molecular divergence time estimates (ca. 124 ± 17 Ma) for the Metastriata lineage. Amblyomma has a largely Gondwanan distribution today. However, in some biogeographical scenarios, e.g. the Samafrica model, its predicted radiation time postdates the dissolution of the original Gondwana supercontinent raising questions about how its current distribution pattern was achieved.

A new species and genus of Alienopteridae (Blattodea) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4941 (4) ◽  
pp. 580-586
Author(s):  
XIN-YU CHEN ◽  
HUA-CHUAN ZHANG ◽  
XIAOXIAO SHI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Posterior Part ◽  
Batesian Mimicry ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
A New Species

Eminespina burma gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on a female embedded in Cretaceous Burmese amber of Cenomanian age. Autapomorphic are three unique spines distributed anterior quarter of pronotum from longer posterior part. The new evidence of Batesian mimicry in the insect fossil record is briefly discussed. 

scholarly journals Adocus Kohaku, A New Species of Aquatic Turtle (Testudines: Cryptodira: Adocidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Kuji, Iwate Prefecture, Northeast Japan, with Special References to the Geological Age of the Tamagawa Formation (Kuji Group) LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:61376EEE-A386-416E-98AE-FF64FE2597A2

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren Hirayama
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Geological Age ◽  
Iwate Prefecture ◽  
A New Species

A nearly complete shell of the genus Adocus (Adocidae; Pan-Trionychia; Cryptodira; Testudines) was collected from the late Cretaceous (Turonian) Tamagawa Formation of Kuji Group at Kuji City, Iwate Prefecture, northeast Japan. This turtle shows unique features such as the loss of cervical scute, extreme expansion of marginal scutes overlying costal plates, and exclusion of the humeral- pectoral sulcus from entoplastron. Thus, A. kohaku is erected as a new species. As A. kohaku shows most derived position of A. kohaku within this genus, morphological diversity of the genus Adocus seems to have occurred rather early in its evolution in Eastern Asia.

New data on gastropod genus Hirsuticyclus (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber

2021 ◽  
pp. SP521-2021-127
Author(s):  
Tingting Yu
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Morphological Diversity ◽  
First Record ◽  
Land Snail ◽  
Generic Diagnosis ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
New Material ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe genus Hirsuticyclus Neubauer, Xing & Jochum, 2019 was the first record of an exceptionally preserved land snail with dense periostracal hairs from mid-Cretaceous Kachin (Burmese) amber. Here we document four newly-discovered shells from Kachin amber, one belonging to the type species Hirsuticyclus electrum Neubauer, Xing & Jochum, 2019 and the remaining three shells belonging to a new species, Hirsuticyclus canaliculatus sp. nov. Well-preserved morphological characteristics of these two species could be clearly demonstrated under light microscopy combined with modern micro-CT scans with computer 3D reconstructions. Our new material of the type species amends the generic diagnosis based on a better-preserved shell including the peristome and operculum. The new species shows distinctive shell characteristics such as numerous spiral keels and a flaring, folded peristome interrupted by two canals. These excellently preserved fossils contribute to our understanding of the morphological diversity and evolution of these ancient members of cyclophoroids.

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