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The first Triassic ‘Protodonatan’ (Zygophlebiidae) from China: stratigraphical implications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2016

D. R. ZHENG ,
A. NEL ,
B. WANG ,
E. A. JARZEMBOWSKI ,
S.-C. CHANG  and
H. C. ZHANG
D. R. ZHENG*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
A. NEL
Affiliation:
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France
B. WANG
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1, Beichen West Road, Beijing 100101, China
E. A. JARZEMBOWSKI
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
S.-C. CHANG
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
H. C. ZHANG*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
*
†Authors for correspondence: dranzheng@gmail.com
hczhang@nigpas.ac.cn
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Abstract

The clade Triadophlebioptera within the Odonatoptera greatly diversified and became widely distributed worldwide during the Triassic. Although abundant insect fossils have been reported from the Triassic of China, no Triassic dragonflies have been recorded. In this paper, Zygophlebia tongchuanensis sp. nov., the first species of Zygophlebiidae discovered outside the Madygen Formation of Kyrgyzstan, is described from the Middle–Upper Triassic Tongchuan Formation of Shaanxi Province, northwestern China. The discovery extends the distribution of the family Zygophlebiidae in Asia, indicating a high diversity of Triadophlebioptera during Middle–Late Triassic times. Combined with the palaeontological and geochronological evidence, the age of the Tongchuan Formation is considered to be Anisian – Early Carnian, and the insect-bearing layers are considered to be Ladinian.

Keywords

OdonatopteraTriadophlebiomorphaZygophlebiidaeTongchuan FormationLadinianChina
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Geological Magazine , Volume 154 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 169 - 174
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