The GenusLepiliusChampion (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Molytinae: Conotrachelini) in North America, with Description of a New Species,Lepilius chisosensisAnderson, from Big Bend National Park, Texas, U.S.A.

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-69
Author(s):  
Robert S. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
National Park ◽  
Big Bend National Park ◽  
Big Bend ◽  
A New Species

Hadrosaurian dinosaurs from the Maastrichtian Javelina Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Lehman ◽  
Steven L. Wick ◽  
Jonathan R. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
National Park ◽  
Northern Great Plains ◽  
Single Specimen ◽  
Big Bend National Park ◽  
West Texas ◽  
Big Bend ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Specific Identity

AbstractRare remains of hadrosaurian dinosaurs previously reported from the Maastrichtian Javelina Formation of West Texas had been attributed tentatively to either Edmontosaurus or Kritosaurus. Three recently recovered specimens include substantial skull parts and postcranial skeletal elements sufficient to recognize three distinct hadrosaurs. Two species are found in the lower part of the Javelina Formation; one of these is identified as Kritosaurus sp., confirming the earlier referral of specimens to this taxon. The most complete of these specimens combines features thought to be diagnostic of both K. navajovius Brown, 1910 and ‘Naashoibitosaurus’ ostromi Hunt and Lucas, 1993 and exhibits some unique attributes such that its specific identity remains uncertain. A second species, documented by a single specimen found near the base of the Javelina Formation, is inadequate to confidently identify but appears to represent a ‘solid-crested’ saurolophine with frontals having upturned processes along the midline, similar to those that brace the posterior side of the narial crest in Saurolophus. A third hadrosaur is represented at a bonebed in the uppermost part of the Javelina Formation. Its remains are sufficient to justify designation as a new species ?Gryposaurus alsatei. The skull roof elements are similar to those in species of Gryposaurus, and although no parts of the narial crest are preserved, the bordering elements indicate that ?G. alsatei was a ‘flat-headed’ saurolophine. Referral of ?G. alsatei to Gryposaurus would constitute a significant temporal range extension for the genus into late Maastrichtian time, and if correct, this long-lived lineage of hadrosaurs persisted nearly to the end of Cretaceous time in West Texas. ?G. alsatei was a contemporary of Edmontosaurus, the sole terminal Cretaceous hadrosaur in the northern Great Plains region, and neither possessed the ornate narial crest that characterized many earlier hadrosaurs.

A New Species of Phyllophaga from the Big Bend Region of Texas and Coahuila, with Notes on other Scarabaeidae of the Area

1960 ◽  
Vol 92 (6) ◽  
pp. 457-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry F. Howden
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Complete List ◽  
Big Bend National Park ◽  
Exact Number ◽  
Big Bend ◽  
Big Bend Region ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species

During May, 1959, a number of uncommon species of Scarabaeidae were collected in or near the Big Bend National Park, Brewster Co., Texas. The object of this paper is to give distribution and habitat data on some of the rarer species and to describe one new species of Phyllophaga. Because much of the material is still unmounted, a complete list of species taken is not practical, nor can the exact number of specimens taken be given in some cases.

scholarly journals A revision of the genus Eurhoptus LeConte, 1876 (Curculionidae, Cryptorhynchinae) of America north of Mexico

ZooKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 787 ◽  
pp. 37-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Anderson ◽  
Michael S. Caterino
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Type Locality ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Natural Area ◽  
Big Bend National Park ◽  
Big Bend ◽  
Species Type ◽  
Hidalgo County

The genus Eurhoptus LeConte, 1876 is revised for America north of Mexico. Eight species are recognized including E.pyriformis LeConte, 1876, E.sordidus (LeConte, 1876), E.curtus (Hamilton, 1893), resurrected name, and five new species as follows: E.rileyi new species (type locality, Texas, Hidalgo County, Bentsen Rio Grande State Park), E.imbricatus new species (type locality, Texas, Bandera County, Lost Maples State Natural Area), E.cariniventris new species (type locality, Texas, Bandera County, Lost Maples State Natural Area), E.occidentalis new species (type locality, Texas, Brewster County, Big Bend National Park), and E.aenigmaticus new species (type locality, Alabama, Winston County, Bankhead National Forest). Descriptions or redescriptions, and images of taxonomically important structures are presented for all species. A key to the eight species is included.

Expanding horizons... The first report of the genus Mysmena (Araneae, Mysmenidae) from continental North America, with the description of a new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1718 (1) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
LARA LOPARDO ◽  
NADINE DUPÉRRÉ ◽  
PIERRE PAQUIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
National Park ◽  
First Report ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
Inventory Survey ◽  
A New Species

Mysmena quebecana, a new species of the spider family Mysmenidae is here described. Mysmena quebecana was discovered in a spider bio-inventory survey of the Yamaska National Park (Québec, Canada). We therefore report the first occurrence of the family in this province, as well as the first member of the genus Mysmena for continental North America.

Late Campanian southern dinosaurs, Aguja Formation, Big Bend, Texas

2001 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia T. Sankey
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Big Bend National Park ◽  
Terrestrial Vertebrate ◽  
West Texas ◽  
Big Bend ◽  
Open Canopy ◽  
Northern Areas ◽  
Dinosaur Teeth ◽  
A New Species

One of the southernmost North American late Campanian microvertebrate assemblages was collected from the upper Aguja Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas. The dinosaurs provide additional evidence that distinct southern and northern terrestrial vertebrate provinces occurred contemporaneously during this time due to latitudinal differences in temperature and rainfall. Southern areas, such as west Texas, were warm dry, with non-seasonal climates, and with open-canopy woodlands; they appear to be less fossil-rich and less diverse than northern areas. Nine dinosaurs are present, based on isolated teeth: pachycephalosaurid; hadrosaurid; ceratopsian; tyrannosaurid; Saurornitholestes cf. langstoni (Sues, 1978); Richardoestesia cf. gilmorei (Currie et al., 1990); a new species of Richardoestesia, which is named here; and a undetermined theropod unlike any previously described. Previous reports of Troodon sp. from the Talley Mt. and Terlingua microsites are mistaken; they are a pachycephalosaurid. Many of the dinosaur teeth are small, and are probably from juveniles or younger individuals, evidence that dinosaurs nested in the area. Paleoecologically, the upper Aguja was probably more similar to the lower and more inland faunas of the Scollard Formation (~66 Ma) of Alberta than to contemporaneous northern faunas: both had drier, open environments and lower dinosaur abundance. This connection between climate and dinosaur abundance suggests that climatic factors were important in the Late Cretaceous dinosaur extinctions.

Notes on the Lodgepole Needle Miner, Recurvaria milleri Busck (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), and Its Parasites in Western North America

1951 ◽  
Vol 83 (11) ◽  
pp. 295-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Western North America ◽  
Banff National Park ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heavy Infestation ◽  
A New Species

The lodgepole needle miner, Recurvaria milleri Busck, was discovered in 1903 in the Yosemite National Park, California, and was described as a new species by Busck (1914). The infestation has persisted in that area, with irregular periods of abundance and scarcity. The latest heavy infestation was reported (G. R. Struble, in litt.) to have started in 1947, and has continued to intensify. The history of the outbreak to 1919 was reported by Patterson (1921).In 1942 a second important infestation was reported in the Banff National Park, Alberta. Details concerning the area of infestation and life-history notes were given by Hopping (1946). This infestation has continued to spread and has reached Yoho, Kootenay, and Revelstoke National parks.

Doryphoribius smokiensis, a new species of Eutardigrada (Hypsibiidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN, USA (North America)

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1646 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL J. BARTELS ◽  
DIANE R. NELSON ◽  
ŁUKASZ KACZMAREK ◽  
ŁUKASZ MICHALCZYK
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Leaf Litter ◽  
National Park ◽  
Similar Species ◽  
Morphometric Characters ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Smoky Mountains ◽  
A New Species

A new eutardigrade, Doryphoribius smokiensis sp. nov., is described from soil and leaf litter samples collected in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, USA. The new species differs from two similar species (with two macroplacoids and a sculptured dorsal cuticle without gibbosities) by the presence of a very wide buccal tube (high buccal tube pt ratio: >20.0), absence of enlarged bases of claws, absence of eyes, and other morphological and morphometric characters.

PERALKALINE RHYOLITE AND TRACHYTE IN BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. White ◽  
◽  
Don F. Parker ◽  
Kevin M. Urbanczyk
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Big Bend National Park ◽  
Big Bend
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