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.

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.

scholarly journals The Boquillas Formation of the Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA, a reference Cenomanian through Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) carbonate succession at the southern end of the Western Interior Seaway

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dee Ann Cooper ◽  
Roger W. Cooper ◽  
James B. Stevens ◽  
M.S. Stevens ◽  
William A. Cobban ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marine Environment ◽  
National Park ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Western Interior Seaway ◽  
Big Bend National Park ◽  
Big Bend ◽  
Marine Carbonate ◽  
Big Bend Region ◽  
C 78

Abstract The upper lower Cenomanian through middle Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Boquillas Formation in the Big Bend Region of Trans-Pecos Texas consists of a marine carbonate succession deposited at the southern end of the Western Interior Seaway. The Boquillas Formation, subdivided into the lower, c. 78 m thick limestone-shale Ernst Member, and the upper, c. 132 m thick limestone/chalk/marl San Vicente Member, was deposited in a shallow shelf open marine environment at the junction between the Western Interior Seaway and the western margins of the Tethys Basin. Biogeographically, the area was closely tied with the southern Western Interior Seaway. The richly fossiliferous upper Turonian, Coniacian and lower Santonian parts of the Boquillas Formation are particularly promising for multistratigraphic studies.

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.

scholarly journals Review of the tribe Typoderini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Caucasus with the description of a new species of Caulomorphus from Armenia

2020 ◽  
pp. 629-638
Author(s):  
Peter Hlaváč
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Complete List ◽  
The Caucasus ◽  
Caucasus Region ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species

All genera of the tribe Typoderini presented in the Caucasus Region, i.e. Adexius Schönherr, 1834 (which is here transferred to Typoderini from Molytini based on morphological characters), Anchonidium Bedel, 1884, Aparopion Hampe, 1861, Caulomorphus Faust, 1886, and Pseudaparopion Borovec, Osella & Zuppa, 2002, are diagnosed and partly illustrated. One new species, Caulomorphus kociani sp. nov., is described; Caulomorphus besucheti Osella, 1970, Caulomorphus talyschensis Reitter, 1897, and Anchonidium perpensum Faust, 1886 are redescribed. Lectotype is designated for Anchonidium perpensum. Keys to Caucasian genera of Typoderini and to all species of Caucasian Anchonidium and Caulomorphus are provided. A complete list of species with their distribution is given.

The gray vireo (Vireo vicinior Coues; Aves: Vireonidae) wintering in the Big Bend region, west Texas

1971 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 953-955
Author(s):  
Jon C. Barlow ◽  
Roland H. Wauer
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Wintering Grounds ◽  
Big Bend National Park ◽  
West Texas ◽  
Big Bend ◽  
Northwestern Mexico ◽  
Big Bend Region

The gray vireo, which was previously known only to winter in southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico, is reported as wintering in small numbers in Big Bend National Park, west Texas. This area is 450 mi east of the previously known wintering grounds.

scholarly journals New and variable caddisfly species (Insecta: Trichoptera) from Bạch Mã National Park in Vietnam

Zoosymposia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102
Author(s):  
KELLY M. MURRAY-STOKER ◽  
JOHN C. MORSE ◽  
MADELINE S. GENCO ◽  
HONG THAI PHAM
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
National Park ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species

Two new species and descriptions of variation in two previously-described species of Vietnamese Trichoptera are presented. Adult males were collected in Bạch Mã National Park, Thừa Thiên Huế Province, Vietnam. Two species in the genus Anisocentropus (Calamoceratidae) are examined here, with one new species and variations in the second species described. Two species in the family Hydroptilidae are examined, with descriptions of a new species in the genus Chrysotrichia and variation in a species of of Ugandatrichia. We provide illustrations of male genitalia for each species.

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.

First record of the genus Dolichomitus Smith (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimplinae) from Vietnam, with description of one new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 3519 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
NHI THI PHAM ◽  
GAVIN R. BROAD ◽  
KEES ZWAKHALS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Nature Reserve ◽  
First Record ◽  
Lao Cai ◽  
Tam Dao National Park ◽  
First Time ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Hoa Binh

The genus Dolichomitus Smith, 1877 is recorded from Vietnam for the first time with description of a new species, D. lami sp. nov., from Hoang Lien National Park, Lao Cai Province. Besides, D. melanomerus (Vollenhoven) is recorded as new for the country from specimens collected in Tam Dao National Park, Vinh Phuc Province and Hang Kia-Pa Co Nature Reserve, Hoa Binh Province.

Conodont fauna and biostratigraphy of the Outram, Skoki, and Owen Creek Formations (Lower to Middle Ordovician), Wilcox Pass, Alberta, Canada

2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. 958-976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne J. Pyle ◽  
Christopher R. Barnes ◽  
Zailiang Ji
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Carbonate Platform ◽  
Canadian Cordillera ◽  
Middle Ordovician ◽  
Conodont Fauna ◽  
One New Species ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Reference Section

A collection of 60,886 conodonts was recovered from 141 samples of the Outram, Skoki and Owen Creek Formations (Lower to Middle Ordovician) that outcrop through the Wilcox Pass section, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. This section representσ the standard reference section for the Lower-Middle Ordovician of the Southern Canadian Cordillera. The well preserved fauna is assigned to 75 species representing 48 genera. The species are representative of both the Midcontinent and Atlantic faunal realms, but dominantly the former. Nine Midcontinent Realm zones are recognized in the upwards shallowing carbonate platform succession including the Scolopodus subrex, Acodus kechikaensis, Oepikodus communis, Jumudontus gananda, Tripodus laevis, Histiodella altifrons, Histiodella sinuosa, Histiodella holodentata, and Phragmodus “pre-flexuosus” zones. Zones recognized that are characteristic of the Atlantic Realm include Paroistodus proteus, Paracordylodus gracilis, Oepikodus evae, Paroistodus originalis, and Microzarkodina flabellum. A new genus, Filodontus, is proposed for elements assigned previously to the form genus “Scolopodus” filosus. A new species, Leptochirognathus wilcoxi, is described and one new species, left in open nomenclature, is assigned to Rossodus?.

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