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Title: | Snakefly diversity in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Neuropterida, Raphidioptera) |
Author: | Pérez de la Fuente, Ricardo Peñalver Mollá, Enrique Delclòs Martínez, Xavier Engel, Michael S. |
Keywords: | Ambre Cretaci Espanya Amber Cretaceous Period Spain |
Issue Date: | 25-Jun-2012 |
Publisher: | Pensoft |
Abstract: | The Albian amber from Spain presently harbors the greatest number and diversity of amber adult fossil snakeflies (Raphidioptera). Within Baissopteridae, Baissoptera? cretaceoelectrasp. n., from the Peñacerrada I outcrop (Moraza, Burgos), is the first amber inclusion belonging to the family and described from western Eurasia, thus substantially expanding the paleogeographical range of the family formerly known from the Cretaceous of Brazil and eastern Asia. Within the family Mesoraphidiidae, Necroraphidia arcuatagen. et sp. n. and Amarantoraphidia ventolinagen. et sp. n. are described from the El Soplao outcrop (Rábago, Cantabria), whereas Styporaphidia? hispanicasp. n. and Alavaraphidia imperterritagen. et sp. n. are describedfrom Peñacerrada I. In addition, three morphospecies are recognized from fragmentary remains. The following combinations are restored: Yanoraphidia gaoi Ren, 1995, stat. rest., Mesoraphidia durlstonensis Jepson, Coram and Jarzembowski, 2009, stat. rest., and Mesoraphidia heteroneura Ren, 1997, stat. rest. The singularity of this rich paleodiversity could be due to the paleogeographic isolation of the Iberian territory and also the prevalence of wildfires during the Cretaceous. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.204.2740 |
It is part of: | ZooKeys, 2012, vol. 204, p. 1-40 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/36408 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.204.2740 |
ISSN: | 1313-2989 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Dinàmica de la Terra i l'Oceà) |
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