A new species of Sorbinichthys (Teleostei: Clupeomorpha: Ellimmichthyiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison M. Murray ◽  
Mark V.H. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Marine Species ◽  
Western Tethys ◽  
Eastern Morocco ◽  
A New Species

A new species of ellimmichthyiform fish, represented by three specimens, has been recovered from deposits of the Akrabou Formation of Morocco. The new species is described in the existing genus Sorbinichthys , family Sorbinichthyidae, as Sorbinichthys africanus , sp. nov., closely related to the type species Sorbinichthys elusivo . The Ellimmichthyiformes is an extinct order of clupeomorph fishes that includes both freshwater and marine species ranging from the Early Cretaceous through the Eocene. Sorbinichthys elusivo is known from Cenomanian deposits of the eastern Mediterranean Tethys (Lebanon), whereas the new species is possibly early Turonian but more probably late Cenomanian in age, from the western Tethys (eastern Morocco). At lower taxonomic levels, the assemblage from the Akrabou Formation has a primarily Tethyan composition, exemplified by the genus Sorbinichthys, whereas supra-generic taxa found there include groups with trans-Atlantic (e.g., Sorbinichthyidae, Macrosemiidae) or near-cosmopolitan (e.g., Paraclupeidae) distributions.

A new species of Hesterniasca (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae) from the Early Cretaceous of China with discussion of its systematic position

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Solodovnikov ◽  
Diying Huang ◽  
Chenyang Cai
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Systematic Position ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Liaoning Province ◽  
Rove Beetle ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Better Than

AbstractA new species of the extinct rove beetle genus Hesterniasca Zhang, Wang & Xu, 1992 is described and illustrated on the basis of a well-preserved specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation at Huangbanjigou of Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, Northeastern China. Based on the examination of this new species that is preserved better than the type species of the genus, Hesterniasca is firmly placed in the recent subfamily Tachyporinae, tentatively in the recent tribe Tachyporini MacLeay, 1825. Arguments for the Early Cretaceous age of the Laiyang Formation in Shandong Province, Eastern China, from where the type species of the genus, Hesterniasca obesa Zhang, Wang & Xu, 1992, has been discovered are provided.

A new shrimp (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeoidea) from the Middle Triassic of Yunnan, southwest China

2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyuan Huang ◽  
Rodney M. Feldmann ◽  
Carrie E. Schweitzer ◽  
Shixue Hu ◽  
Changyong Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Middle Triassic ◽  
Marine Ecosystem ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Western Tethys ◽  
Phylogeny And Evolution ◽  
The City ◽  
A New Species

A new penaeoid shrimp collected from the Middle Triassic Member II of the Guanling Formation in the vicinity of the city of Luxi, Yunnan, southwest China, is a new species,Aeger luxiin. sp. The new species possesses prominent spinose third maxillipeds, which is one of the typical characteristics ofAeger. The new species differs from the type species,Aeger tipulariusfrom the Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalk, in having a long, smooth rostrum with no subrostral spines. The new taxon increases the diversity of Chinese decapods, and further expands our knowledge of the phylogeny and evolution of the Mesozoic decapods. The find is the first complete specimen ofAegerin the Middle Triassic, and reveals a close biogeographic connection of the marine ecosystem between Eastern and Western Tethys.

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.

New Neritidae from southwestern North America

1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan J. Cushing Woods ◽  
L. R. Saul
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Baja California ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Molluscan Fauna ◽  
A New Species

In southwestern Baja California Norte a new species of Early Tertiary Tethyan gastropod, Velates, V. vizcainoensis n. sp., occurs with a previously unknown intertidal molluscan fauna suggestive of an unprotected coastline of probable Paleocene age. Comparison of Velates vizcainoensis n. sp. to other forms previously assigned to Velates from southwestern North America suggests that “Nerita” cuneata Gabb of Late Cretaceous age probably belongs in Neritina (Dostia), as do N. (D.) aff. N. (D.) cuneata and N. (D.) escondita n. sp.Velates is probably derived from typical Otostoma and is an early Tertiary genus. Velates californicus Vokes, although originally described as being from the Llajas Formation of middle Eocene age, is from the upper Santa Susana Formation and probably is of late Paleocene age at its type locality.Two other neritid gastropods are present in the fauna with Velates vizcainoensis; namely, Corsania (Januncia) Janus n. subgen., n. sp. and Nerita (Theliostyla) n. sp.(?). Corsania Vidal, 1917, is a genus distinct from Otostoma and ranges from Early Cretaceous to Paleocene. Januncia n. subgen. has a Tethyan distribution and ranges from Maastrichtian through Paleocene.

Appraisal of the fossil record ofHomarus(nephropid lobster), with description of a new species from the upper Oligocene of Hungary and remarks on the status ofHoploparia

2017 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Tshudy ◽  
Matúš Hyžný ◽  
Alfréd Dulai ◽  
John W.M. Jagt
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Upper Oligocene ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
The Status ◽  
A New Species

AbstractThe fossil record of the clawed lobster genus,Homarus, is appraised. The taxonomic history ofHomarusandHoplopariais summarized, and a list of species recognized for each is provided. A tabulation of all fossil species of the family Nephropidae permits assessment of nephropid species diversity through time. A new species ofHomarus,H.hungaricus, is recorded from the upper Oligocene (Chattian) Mány Formation at Mány, northern Hungary. The species is known by a single specimen consisting of a partial cephalothorax, a pleon minus telson, and partial chelipeds.Homarusis now known by two extant species (H.americanusandH.gammarus) and six fossil taxa, one of Early Cretaceous (Albian;H.benedeni) and five of Cenozoic age (H.hungaricusn. sp.,H.klebsi,H.lehmanni,H.morrisi, andH.percyi). The new fossilHomarusdiffers from modern congeners in aspects of carapace and pleon ornamentation and, especially, cutter claw shape. This is the fourth Oligocene occurrence of a nephropid species; all areHomarusand all are from Western Europe.Homarusmakes its appearance in the fossil record in the Early Cretaceous (Albian) and then is not known again until the Paleogene, despite the fact that nephropid lobsters in general are well known from the Late Cretaceous. Nephropid lobsters are better known from the Cretaceous than from the Cenozoic. Both raw species numbers and numbers corrected (normalized) for epicontinental sea coverage show that shelf-dwelling nephropid lobsters were most diverse during the Late Cretaceous.

Ginkgophytes of the Ul’ya flora (the Ul’ya depresiion, the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanogenic belt)

Palaeobotany ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 80-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Golovneva
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
Middle Part ◽  
Leaf Length ◽  
Volcanogenic Belt ◽  
Short Shoots ◽  
Volcanogenic Deposits

The Ul’ya flora comes from the Coniacian volcanogenic deposits of the Amka Formation (the Ul'ya depression, southern part of the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanogenic belt). Ginkgoaleans are diverse in this flora and represented by three genera: Ginkgo, Sphenobaiera and Baiera. All specimens have no cuticle and were assigned to morphotaxa. Genus Ginkgo includes two species: G. ex gr. adiantoides (Ung.) Heer with entire leaves and G. ex gr. sibirica Heer with dissected leaves. Genus Sphenobaiera also consists of two species: S. ex gr. longifolia (Pom.) Florin with 4–8 leaf lobes and S. ex gr. biloba Prynada with two leaf lobes. Genus Baiera is represented by new species B. lebedevii Golovn., sp. nov.Leaves of this species are 25–30 cm long and 13–16 cm wide, narrowly wedge-shaped with flat slender petiole, dichotomously dissected 4–5 times into linear segments 3–6 mm wide with 6–12 veins. The length of ultimate segments is equal to about a half of leaf length. Leaves attached spirally to ovoid short shoots about 2 cm long. Among the Late Cretaceous floras similar diversity of ginkgoaleans was recorded only in the Turonian-Coniacian Arman flora from middle part of the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanogenic belt (Herman et al., 2016). Four species of ginkgoaleans from the Ul’ya flora (except G. ex gr. adiantoides) are considered as the Early Cretaceous relicts.

A new species of the genus Parapachymorpha Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 (Phasmida, Phasmatidae, Clitumninae) from Laos

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4732 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-200
Author(s):  
CHANG-MOON JANG ◽  
YANG˗SEOP BAE
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Surface ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Lateral View ◽  
Lower Margin ◽  
Additional Species ◽  
The World ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Egg Capsule

Parapachymorpha is one of eight genera within the tribe Medaurini of subfamily Clitumninae (Phasmatidae). It was established by Brunner von Wattenwyl (1893), with the type species Parapachymorpha nigra by subsequent designation of Kirby (1904), from Myanmar. Species of this genus are widely distributed in oriental tropics (Laos, China, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia), with only 11 known species in the world (Brock et al. 2018, Ho 2017). Species of the genus Parapachymorpha can be recognized by following characters (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893;1907, Henmemann & Conle 2008, Ho 2017): 1) body robust in female and slender in male with long leg in relation to the length; 2) body surface of female granulose or spinose; 3) mesonotum of female more and less expanded posteriorly; 4) abdominal tergites lacking expanded prostero–lateral angles in both sexes; 5) laminal supraanalis undeveloped in female; 6) semi–tergite of male irregularly rectangular, with an additional finger­–like ventro–apical appendix on the lower margin and reduced or absent; 7) egg capsule oval to oblong and covered with a raised net–like structure in lateral view; 8) micropylar plate oval; 9) operculum concave or convex. In the present study, we describe additional species, Parapachymorpha minuta sp. nov. from Laos, with photographs of both sexes of adults and egg. 

Description of a new species of Saliocleta Walker, 1862 (Lepidoptera, Notodontidae, Spatalinae, Ceirini) and description of S. notia Schintlmeister, 1997 female from Thailand

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4353 (3) ◽  
pp. 584
Author(s):  
MARKKU J. PELLINEN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Northern Thailand ◽  
A New Species

One new Saliocleta (type-species nonagrioides Walker, 1862), S. puyak sp. n., and the female of S. notia Schintlmeister, 1997 are described from Northern Thailand. The male genitalia structure of Saliocleta is examined in detail. 

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