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Issue: Vol. 60 No. 1: 27 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-27
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2024.60.1.5
Page range: 16-23
Abstract views: 49
PDF downloaded: 43

New locustopsid fossils from the Middle Jurassic Yan’an Formation (Orthoptera: Caelifera)

Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), MNHN, CNRS, SU, EPHE-PSL, UA, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Insecta Locustopsoidea taxonomy venation Yanliao biota

Abstract

Sinolocustopsis gen. nov. with two new species Sinolocustopsis elongatus sp. nov. and Sinolocustopsis brevis sp. nov. are described from the Yan’an Formation. These are the second and third Middle Jurassic Caelifera from China, the first described one being Locustopsis rhytofemoralis from the Haifanggou Formation (Callovian; = Jiulongshan Formation, Bathonian–Callovian boundary interval in original paper). It is a new evidence reveal the relationship between the insect assemblages from the Yan’an Formation and the Daohugou biota.

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