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The first orthophlebiid scorpionfly (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2017

Ed Jarzembowski  and
Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj
Ed Jarzembowski*
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK. Email: jarzembowski2@live.co.uk
Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of Łódź, 90-237 Łódź, Poland.
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Abstract

The Family Orthophlebiidae ranges from the Middle Triassic to the Early Cretaceous. The Wealden Mecoptera have added to our knowledge of the Mecoptera from the Early Cretaceous of southern England, but have been comparatively little studied. Here we present the description of the first orthophlebiid from the Wealden of England. Mesopanorpa brooksorum sp. nov. from England is the earliest Cretaceous representative of this genus.

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Mesopanorpanew speciesOrthophlebiidaeUKWeald Clay
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 107 , Issue 2-3: Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber , June 2016 , pp. 191 - 194
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