Systematics and evolution of Paleozoic and Mesozoic damselfly-like Odonatoptera of the ‘protozygopteran’ grade

2012 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Nel ◽  
Günter Bechly ◽  
Jakub Prokop ◽  
Olivier Béthoux ◽  
Gunther Fleck
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Late Carboniferous ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Minor Effect ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Triassic Boundary ◽  
Venation Pattern ◽  
New Family

The Paleozoic to Mesozoic grade ‘Protozygoptera’ is revised. It appears to be composed of two main lineages, namely the superfamily Permagrionoidea, and the Archizygoptera. The latter taxon forms a monophyletic group together with Panodonata (=crown-Odonata plus their closest stem-relatives). Therefore, the ‘Protozygoptera’ as previously understood is paraphyletic. Diagnostic characters of the ‘Protozygoptera’, Permagrionoidea, and Archizygoptera are re-evaluated. The Permolestidae is considered as a junior synonym of the Permagrionidae. The following new taxa are described: Permolestes sheimogorai new species, Permolestes soyanaiensis new species, Epilestes angustapterix new species, Solikamptilon pectinatus new species (all in Permagrionidae); Lodeviidae new family (for Lodevia); Luiseiidae new family (including Luiseia breviata new genus and species); Kennedya azari new species, Kennedya pritykinae new species, Kennedya ivensis new species, Progoneura grimaldii new species (all in Kennedyidae); Engellestes chekardensis new genus and species (in Bakteniidae); and Azaroneura permiana new genus and species (in Voltzialestidae). The Kaltanoneuridae and Oboraneuridae are revised. The evolution of protozygopteran Odonatoptera during the transition from the Permian to the Triassic is discussed. The larger taxa of the permagrionoid lineage apparently did not cross through the Permian–Triassic boundary, unlike the more gracile Archizygoptera. This last group shows a remarkable longevity from the late Carboniferous to the Early Cretaceous. It also presents a great taxonomic and morphological stability, with genera ranging from the Permian to the Triassic, and a wing venation pattern nearly unchanged from the late Carboniferous to the Late Triassic. The mass extinction at the end of the Permian period seemingly had a minor effect on these tiny and delicate insects.

Xenosellidae, a new family of Janiroidea (Asellota: Isopoda:  Crustacea), for Xenosella coxospinosa gen. nov., sp. nov.,  from the marine bathyal of eastern Australia

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1085 (1) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEAN JUST
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Incertae Sedis ◽  
New Family ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Similar Body ◽  
South Eastern Australia

A new genus and species of janiroidean Asellota, Xenosella coxospinosa, is described from the mid-bathyal slope off the coast of south-eastern Australia. Following a comparison of the new species to several families of broadly similar body shape, with emphasis on monotypic Pleurocopidae, a new family, Xenosellidae, is proposed for the new species. In the course of comparing relevant taxa, the current placements of Prethura Kensley in the Santiidae and Salvatiella Müller in the Munnidae are rejected. The two genera are considered to be incertae sedis within the Asellota superfamily Janiroidea pending further studies.

New Monoplacophora (Mollusca) from Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician of Missouri

1986 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 606-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce L. Stinchcomb
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Upper Cambrian ◽  
Early Ordovician ◽  
New Family ◽  
Late Cambrian ◽  
Lower Ordovician ◽  
A New Species

Fourteen new species and six new genera of the molluscan class Monoplacophora are described from the Upper Cambrian Potosi and Eminence formations and the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation of the Ozark Uplift of Missouri and some new biostratigraphic horizons are introduced. A new superfamily, the Hypseloconellacea nom. trans. Knight, 1956, and a new family, the Shelbyoceridae, are named. The genus Proplina is represented by five new species: P. inflatus, P. suttoni from the Cambrian Potosi Formation, P. arcua from the Cambrian Eminence Formation and P. meramecensis and P. sibeliusi from the Lower Ordovician Gasconade Formation. A new genus and species in the subfamily Proplininae, Ozarkplina meramecensis, is described from the Upper Cambrian Eminence Formation. Four new monoplacophoran genera in the superfamily Hypseloconellacea and their species are described, including: Cambrioconus expansus, Orthoconus striatus, Cornuella parva from the Eminence Formation, and Gasconadeoconus ponderosa, G. waynesvillensis, G. expansus from the Gasconade Formation. A new genus in the new family Shelbyoceridae, Archeoconus missourensis, is described from the Eminence Formation and a new species of Shelbyoceras, S. bigpineyensis, is described from the Gasconade Formation.

scholarly journals A rare case of an evolutionary late and ephemeral biomineralization: tunicates with composite calcareous skeletons

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 748-757
Author(s):  
Jobst Wendt
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
Late Triassic ◽  
Cambrian Explosion ◽  
New Order ◽  
Colonial Ascidian ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Almost All

AbstractIn contrast to almost all other invertebrate phyla that constructed biomineralized skeletons during the “Cambrian explosion” and maintained them during the entire fossil record, ascidian tunicates evolved this protective and stabilizing advantage only during the Permian, although soft-bodied representatives of this subphylum made their first appearance already in the early Cambrian. It remains enigmatic why these compound calcareous skeletons persisted only until the Late Triassic, subsequently followed by less-rigid internal skeletons from the Lower Jurassic onwards, which consist of scattered isolated spicules only. In addition to recently described aragonitic ascidian exoskeletons from the Permian and Triassic, new discoveries of similar, but colonial ascidian compound endoskeletons in the lower Carnian exhibit a short-living branch of this group, which moreover contain the first indubitable calcareous spicules. The latter are embedded in the solid endoskeleton, which is composed of polygonal aragonitic plates with smooth outer and zigzag lined inner boundaries. They consist of irregular, parallel (orthogonal), or fan-shaped (clinogonal) arrangements of acicular aragonite crystals. The following taxa are described as new: order Cassianomorpha new order with the family Cassianosomidae new family and the genus Toscanisoma new genus with the species T. multipartitum new species and T. triplicatum new species.UUID: http://zoobank.org/03555353-cdab-42e8-8e99-9bfce15fa249

scholarly journals The Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata with new taxa from the early Eocene Okanagan Highlands, western North America

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4934 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-133
Author(s):  
S. BRUCE ARCHIBALD ◽  
ROBERT A. CANNINGS ◽  
ROBERT J. ERICKSON ◽  
SETH M. BYBEE ◽  
ROLF W. MATHEWES
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Early Eocene ◽  
Western North America ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Genus Level ◽  
New Family ◽  
Okanagan Highlands ◽  
Head Morphology

We describe the Cephalozygoptera, a new, extinct suborder of Odonata, composed of the families Dysagrionidae and Sieblosiidae, previously assigned to the Zygoptera, and possibly the Whetwhetaksidae n. fam. The Cephalozygoptera is close to the Zygoptera, but differs most notably by distinctive head morphology. It includes 59 to 64 species in at least 19 genera and one genus-level parataxon. One species is known from the Early Cretaceous (Congqingia rhora Zhang), possibly three from the Paleocene, and the rest from the early Eocene through late Miocene. We describe new taxa from the Ypresian Okanagan Highlands of British Columbia, Canada and Washington, United States of America: 16 new species of Dysagrionidae of the existing genus Dysagrion (D. pruettae); the new genera Okanagrion (O. threadgillae, O. hobani, O. beardi, O. lochmum, O. angustum, O. dorrellae, O. liquetoalatum, O. worleyae, all new species); Okanopteryx (O. jeppesenorum, O. fraseri, O. macabeensis, all new species); Stenodiafanus (S. westersidei, new species); the new genus-level parataxon Dysagrionites (D. delinei new species, D. sp. A, D. sp. B, both new); and one new genus and species of the new family Whetwhetaksidae (Whetwhetaksa millerae). 

scholarly journals A world key to the genera of Elcanidae (Insecta, Orthoptera), with a Jurassic new genus and species of Archelcaninae from China

ZooKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 954 ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Jun-Jie Gu ◽  
He Tian ◽  
Junyou Wang ◽  
Wenzhe Zhang ◽  
Dong Ren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Middle Jurassic ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Fossil Genus

A new fossil genus and species is described from the Middle Jurassic of China. The type of Sinoelcana minutagen. et sp. nov. has body and legs preserved. It is distinguished from all other elcanids by the unique combination of wing venation and stout ovipositor. The sickle-shaped ovipositor suggests that the new species had a preference for oviposition on plant material. A world key to the genera of Elcanidae is provided based on the wing venation.

Microlympiidae, a new milliped family from North America, and Microlympia echina, new genus and species (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Brannerioidea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 243 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM A. SHEAR ◽  
WILLIAM P. LEONARD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Jefferson County ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
New Family

A new genus and species of milliped, Microlympia echina, is described from Jefferson County, Washington, USA. The new species cannot be placed in any existing milliped family, due to a unique combination of characters and at least two significant autapomorphies. The new Family Microlympiidae is therefore established, placed in the Superfamily Brannerioidea, and compared with the related families Tingupidae, Niponiosomatidae, and Branneriidae.

scholarly journals New mimarachnids (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Fulgoroidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1057 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Xiao Zhang ◽  
Yunzhi Yao ◽  
Dong Ren ◽  
Hong Pang ◽  
Huayan Chen
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Taxa ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Wing Venation ◽  
Color Patterns ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Burmese Amber ◽  
Phylogenetic Placement ◽  
A New Species

A new genus and species, Multistria orthotropagen. et sp. nov., and a new species, Dachibangus huisp. nov., of Mimarachnidae are described from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. These new taxa display unique wing color patterns and extend the Mesozoic diversity of Mimarachnidae. The evolution of wing venation, phylogenetic placement of Mimarachnidae, and anti-predation defenses of this family in Burmese amber forest are briefly discussed.

scholarly journals Brasileirinidae, a new isopod family (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the cave in Bahia (Brazil) with a discussion on its taxonomic position

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3452 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMONA PREVORČNIK ◽  
RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
New Species ◽  
New Genus ◽  
The Other ◽  
Morphological Evidence ◽  
Karst Cave ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Locality Record ◽  
Total Absence ◽  
New Family

The aquatic troglobiont Brasileirinho cavaticus (Crustacea: Isopoda: Calabozoidea), new genus and species is described from the karst cave of the State of Bahia, Brazil. Based on its unique pleonal features i.e. the total absence of female pleopods I–II, uniramous male pleopods I–II, minute, uniramous respiratory pleopods III–V in both sexes and pleotelson not exceeding 45% of the pleon length, a new family, Brasileirinidae, is created. Some biological, ecological and behavioral data for the species are provided together with the nature conservation issues. Additionally, an assignment of the new species to the suborder Calabozoidea is discussed through comparison with the other two calabozoid species, Calabozoa pellucida and Pongycarcinia xiphidiourus. For the latter species, some previously missing morphological details, as well as a new locality record, are provided. According to the updated morphological evidence, the previously assumed relationships of Calabozoidea are discussed and, consequently, the diagnostic characters of some taxa emended.

Taxonomy of Paraplatyarthrus Javidkar and King (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Paraplatyarthridae) with description of five new species from Western Australia, and comments on Australian Trichorhina Budde-Lunde, 1908 (Platyarthridae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4243 (3) ◽  
pp. 401 ◽  
Author(s):  
MOHAMMAD JAVIDKAR ◽  
RACHAEL A. KING ◽  
STEVEN J. B. COOPER ◽  
WILLIAM F. HUMPHREYS ◽  
ANDREW D. AUSTIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Surface Species ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
New Family ◽  
The Family

The oniscidean fauna of Australia is generally poorly known but recent sampling has revealed a new family, Paraplatyarthridae, found in both terrestrial and groundwater calcretes of central Western Australia. The family was initially described based on a new genus and species, Paraplatyarthrus subterraneus Javidkar and King, 2015. Here we describe an additional five Paraplatyarthrus species from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia, based on both morphological and molecular evidence (COI divergences). Four species are subterranean: P. crebesconiscus Javidkar and King sp. nov., P. cunyuensis Javidkar and King sp. nov., P. occidentoniscus Javidkar and King sp. nov., and P. pallidus Javidkar and King sp. nov., and one is a surface species, P. nahidae Javidkar and King sp. nov. A key to their identification is provided along with information on their distribution. In addition, type material of the two described Australian species of Platyarthridae, Trichorhina australiensis Wahrberg, 1922 from Western Australia and T. tropicalis Lewis, 1998 from Queensland, are examined. Morphological reassessment of type material shows T. australiensis belongs to Paraplatyarthrus (comb. nov.) and that T. tropicalis is correctly placed in Trichorhina, confirming that the genus and family Platyarthridae occur in Australia.  

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.

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