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Issue: Vol. 1469 No. 1: 10 May. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-05-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1469.1.4
Page range: 59–64
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

A new family of Cavilabiata from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, China (Odonata: Anisoptera)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, People’s Republic of China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, People’s Republic of China
CNRS UMR 5202, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 50, Entomologie, 45 Rue Buffon, F-75005, Paris, France
Odonata Anisoptera Cavilabiata fam. nov. Early Cretaceous Jehol biota China

Abstract

A new genus Nodalula gen. nov. and species Nodalula dalinghensis gen. et sp. nov. is described on the basis of a nearly complete specimen from the Lower Cretaceous of North-east China. Its special pattern of wing venation differs from those of the known Mesozoic Cavilabiata genera and allows us to include it in the new family Nodalulaidae within the Neobrachystigmata.

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