Publication Date:
2018
Description:
〈span〉〈div〉Abstract〈/div〉
〈span〉Sinothemis difficilis〈/span〉 new genus new species, youngest and first accurate Chinese representative of the small family Selenothemistidae, is described and illustrated. It is closely related to the genus 〈span〉Turanothemis〈/span〉, known from the Karatau outcrop in Kazakhstan. The genus 〈span〉Caraphlebia〈/span〉, known from the Middle Jurassic of Antarctica, seems to strongly differ from the other representatives of this family and may belong to another family. The fossil was collected from the Upper Jurassic (157.3 ± 1.5 Ma; near Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary) Guancaishan locality, Jianping County, Western Liaoning, NE China. It belongs to the late assemblage of the Yanliao biota, while the early assemblage is represented by the putatively close damsel-dragonfly 〈span〉Paraliassophlebia〈/span〉 from the Jiulongshan Formation of northern Hebei Province.UUID: http://zoobank.org/8b11b148-852e-4079-a9fb-1884bf4b6d94〈/span〉
Print ISSN:
0022-3360
Electronic ISSN:
1937-2337
Topics:
Geosciences
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