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Issue: Vol. 5432 No. 4: 3 Apr. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-03
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.4.6
Page range: 567-572
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A new hemeroscopid dragonfly (Odonata, Anisoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of the Jiuquan Basin, northwestern China

School of GeoSciences; Yangtze University; Wuhan; 430100; China; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; 100049; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; 100049; China
School of GeoSciences; Yangtze University; Wuhan; 430100; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China
Odonata hemeroscopidae Zhonggou Formation lower Cretaceous Jiuquan Basin China

Abstract

A new hemeroscopid dragonfly, Parahemeroscopus jiuquanensis gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous Zhonggou Formation of the Jiuquan Basin, northwestern China. Parahemeroscopus gen. nov. has the mixed characters of the hemeroscopid genera Hemeroscopus Pritykina, 1977 and Abrohemeroscopus Ren, Liu & Cheng, 2003, and probably represents a transitional dragonfly from Abrohemeroscopus to Hemeroscopus. The new finding not only adds to the diversity of the Hemeroscopidae Pritykina, 1977, but also provides clues for revealing the early evolution of the hemeroscopid dragonflies.

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