The first representative of the archaeorthopteran family Eoblattidae in the Konservat Lagerstätte of Avion, France (Insecta: Polyneoptera)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 552-555
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ NEL ◽  
ROMAIN GARROUSTE ◽  
PATRICK ROQUES
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Mazon Creek ◽  
Orthopteroid Insects

The Carboniferous was a period of high diversification of the polyneopteran insects of the superorder Archaeorthoptera (so-called ‘orthopteroid’ insects) (see Fossilworks site at http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=home). Some of the Late Carboniferous outcrops are very rich (Mazon Creek in North America, Commentry in France). The Konservat-Lagerstätte of Avion (Northern France) is especially rich for a Moscovian outcrop, with no less than six described genera and species: Aviogramma gracilis Prokop et al., 2014, Aviocladus pectinatus Prokop et al., 2014, Aviohapaloptera bethouxi Prokop et al., 2014, Aviologus duquesnei Coty et al., 2014, Cacurgus avionensis Schubnel et al., 2020, and cf. Tococladus sp. (Coty et al., 2014; Prokop et al., 2014; Schubnel et al., 2020). Here we describe a new genus and species, the first representative of the Carboniferous family Eoblattidae Handlirsch, 1906 from this outcrop, on the basis of a forewing.

Gigantocharinus szatmaryi, a new trigonotarbid arachnid from the Late Devonian of North America (Chelicerata, Arachnida, Trigonotarbida)

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
William A. Shear
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle Devonian ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Upper Devonian ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Late Devonian ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Significant Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Time Gap

A new trigonotarbid arachnid, Gigantocharinus szatmaryi new genus and species, is described from Upper Devonian (Late Famennian) sediments in Pennsylvania. Devonian trigonotarbids were known before from only a single North American locality and several European ones. The new trigonotarbid occurs in what had previously been a significant time gap between the faunas of the Middle Devonian and the late Carboniferous. Gigantocharinus szatmaryi is assigned with some hesitation to the family Palaeocharinidae.

A new griffenfly genus from the Late Carboniferous of northern France (Odonatoptera: Meganeuridae)

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Roques ◽  
Romain Garrouste ◽  
Andre Nel
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Nodal Structure ◽  
Northern France ◽  
Phylogenetic Implications

AbstractGallotupus oudardi, new genus and species of Meganeuridae is described from the Late Carboniferous of Northern France. Potential phylogenetic implications of two wing venation structures present in meganeurids are discussed on the basis of this new fossil. The most basal antenodal brace Ax0 could be a potential synapomorphy of the Meganeuridae with the Odonatoclada. The 'subnodus' could have been a structure related to larval tracheation in meganeurids, exapted as a part of the complex nodal structure in modern Odonata, related to flight. Lastly the shortly petiolated wing of Gallotupus is analogous to similar wing shapes of several Mesozoic, Cenozoic, and modern nodialatan lineages.

The first Permian scorpionfly from Germany (Insecta, Panorpida: Protomeropidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
MARKUS J. POSCHMANN ◽  
ANDRÉ NEL
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Black Shale ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Early Permian ◽  
New Genus And Species

A new genus and species, Glanomerope virgoferroa gen. et sp. nov., the first Permian record of a scorpionfly from Germany, is described from the Niedermoschel black shale, Meisenheim Formation, Lower Rotliegend of the Saar-Nahe basin. It is assigned to the Protomeropidae, the oldest known family of the holometabolous superorder Panorpida, ranging from the Bashkirian-Moscovian (Late Carboniferous) to the Roadian. It confirms that this family was very diverse in Central Europe during the Early Permian. Protomeropidae possibly became extinct in the course of major climatic changes that progressively affected the supercontinent Pangea after the Artinskian, although generally these changes seem to have more severely affected some other insects such as the palaeopteran Dictyoneuridae than holometabolous groups.

The second species of the cnemidolestid genus Piesbergopterum from the Upper Carboniferous of Avion, Northern France (Archaeorthoptera: Cnemidolestidae)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDRÉ NEL ◽  
PATRICK ROQUES
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Upper Carboniferous ◽  
Northern France ◽  
The Family ◽  
Triangular Area

The Palaeozoic archaeorthopteran order Cnemidolestodea Handlirsch, 1937 (sensu Béthoux, 2005; not sensu Aristov, 2014) currently comprises only the family Cnemidolestidae Handlirsch, 1906. They are easily characterized by the presence of a more or less triangular area delimited by the vein MA and the first anterior fork of MP+CuA+CuPa, this last vein having several parallel posterior branches. Dvořák et al. (2021) listed the included genera, and described the new genus and species Piesbergopterum punctatum from the Moscovian of Piesberg (Germany), characterized by the presence of a pattern of rounded spots in numerous cells all over the forewings. Nel & Poschmann (in press) noticed that the Cnemidolestidae show an important diversity of patterns of coloration on their forewings, possibly related to cryptic behaviors in the vegetation.

Ordovician (Whiterockian) gastropods of Nevada: Bellerophontoidea, Macluritoidea, and Euomphaloidea

1994 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Rohr
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Eastern North America ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Middle Ordovician

Gastropods are abundant in the Middle Ordovician (Whiterockian) Antelope Valley Formation of Nevada. Because Whiterockian rocks are absent in much of central and eastern North America, these Nevada gastropods play a significant role in understanding the Early to Middle Ordovician transition of the class. The shell and operculum of a new genus and species of macluritoid, Monitorella auricula, is described. New euomphaloid taxa include Walcottoma frydai n. gen. and sp., Rossospira harrisae n. gen. and sp., Barnesella measuresae n. sp., Helicotoma gubanovi n. sp., Lytospira yochelsoni n. sp., and Malayaspira hintzei n. sp.

New Uintasoricine (?Primates, Plesiadapiformes) From the Earliest Bridgerian, Latest Early Eocene of Wyoming

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
pp. 973-978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregg F. Gunnell
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspot ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Body Weights ◽  
New Form

Uintasoricines are diminutive plesiadapiforms that are found in the latest Paleocene through middle Eocene, predominantly in North America. They are not a diverse group but individual species may be locally abundant and they are a persistent element of the plesiadapiform radiation in North America surviving over a span of approximately 16 million years. Recent field work in southern Wyoming at South Pass has led to the discovery of a new genus and species of uintasoricine. The new form is smaller in tooth dimensions compared to other known uintasoricines, being slightly smaller thanUintasorex montezumicusfrom California. Both the newly described taxon andU. montezumicusare among the smallest plesiadapiforms yet known with body weights estimated to be 20 to 25 g. The sediments of the Cathedral Bluffs Tongue of the Wasatch Formation at South Pass contain a unique upland fauna—the presence of a distinctive uintasoricine in this assemblage adds further evidence to support the notion that this upland environment was a biodiversity hotspot during the latest early Eocene.

scholarly journals A boring foraminiferan from the Upper Jurassic of England and Northern France

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. R. Plewes ◽  
T. J. Palmer ◽  
J. R. Haynes
Keyword(s):  
New Genus ◽  
Substrate Surface ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Southern England ◽  
Northern France

Abstract. Small rosette borings, consisting of an excavated pit from which is subtended a system of branching galleries, are common in carbonate skeletal substrates in the Upper Jurassic Oxford Clay (Callovian-Oxfordian) and Kimmeridge Clay (Kimmeridgian) of southern England and northern France. The opening of the pit onto the substrate surface is surrounded by an agglutinated collar, which suggests that they may be the work of Foraminifera. The new genus and species, Globodendrina monile, are erected to accommodate them. Other examples of boring in the Foraminiferida are reviewed. It is proposed that other similar rosette boring ichnogenera may also be the work of foraminiferans.

A new genus and species of Middle Jurassic rhagionids from China (Diptera, Rhagionidae)

Biologia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuiyan Zhang ◽  
Ding Yang ◽  
Dong Ren
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species

AbstractRhagionidae is one of the most primary families of the lower Brachycera. Many rhagionid genera and species have been found in the Mesozoic. Their fossils came from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. In the present paper, descriptions of a new genus and species of Rhagionidae from the Middle Jurassic of China, Achrysopilus neimenguensis gen. et sp. n. and a key to genera of Chinese fossil rhagionids are given.

A new genus and first Cenozoic fossil record of moth lacewings (Neuroptera: Ithonidae) from the Early Eocene of North America

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2063 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR N. MAKARKIN ◽  
S. BRUCE ARCHIBALD
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
New Genus And Species

A new genus and species Allorapisma chuorum gen. sp. nov. is described from the Early Eocene locality at Republic, Washington, U.S.A. The forewing venation of Allorapisma is most similar to that of the genus Principiala Makarkin & Menon from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil and Britain. A new, informal suprageneric taxon consisting of these genera is proposed, the Principiala group. The habitats of extant and fossil Ithonidae are briefly discussed.

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