A new family of scorpionflies (Insecta; Mecoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England |
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| Institution: | 1. Formerly Permian State University, Dept. of Geology, Perm, 614600, Russia;2. Department of Natural Sciences, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF, UK;3. Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK;4. Institute of Systematic and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-016, Kraków, Poland;5. Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, University of ?ód?, 90-237, ?ód?, Poland;1. Museum of Natural History, University of Wroc?aw, Sienkiewicza 21, 50-335, Wroc?aw, Poland;2. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogdana Khmel''nitskogo 15, Kiev, 01601, Ukraine;1. Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;1. Institute of Biology, University of Koeln, Germany;2. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China;3. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100101, China;1. 5 rue Marie Davy, F-75014, Paris, France;2. Institut Systématique Evolution Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d''Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université des Antilles, EPHE, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, F-75005, Paris, France;1. School of GeoSciences, Yangtze University, Wuhan, Hubei 430100, China;2. 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;3. Institut für Zoologie und Evolutionsforschung, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany;4. Moscow State Pedagogical University, Zoology & Ecology Department, Kibalchicha Str. 6, Build. 3, Moscow 129164, Russia;5. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China |
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| Abstract: | Seven specimens of fossil scorpionflies (Mecoptera) not assignable to any known family were discovered in the Wealden Supergroup (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England. They were found at Rudgwick Brickworks, West Sussex and Smokejacks Brickworks, Surrey and came from the Upper Weald Clay Formation, dated as Barremian (～129.4–125 Ma). A new family – Englathaumatidae fam. nov., new genus – Englathauma gen. nov. and two new species E. crabbi sp. nov. and E. mellishae sp. nov. are described. A discussion of systematic position of these new taxa within the order Mecoptera is given. Englathaumatidae fam. nov. has been a nomen nudum since the year 2002, due to the first author's untimely death. |
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| Keywords: | Mecoptera Englathaumatidae Barremian New family New genus New species |
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