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- Title
New Lower Cretaceous basal mantodean (Insecta) from the Crato Formation (NE Brazil).
- Authors
Lee, Shih-Wei
- Abstract
Mantodea are very rare in the fossil record. 28 fossil species are reported since the earliest occurrence of mantodeans in the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian). Here, I describe Cretophotina santanensis n. sp. from the Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) Crato Formation of Chapada do Araripe (northeastern Brazil). This species is characterized by long antenna and primitive raptorial forelegs. Morphological characters shared with the living genus Chaeteessa would support its assignment to the family Chaeteessidae. The tropical occurrence of the Early Cretaceous genus Cretophotina in Gondwana, together with occurrences of the genus Chaetessa from subtropical and temperate zones of Laurasia, implies that members of the family Chaeteessidae achieved nearly cosmopolitan distribution during the Early Cretaceous.
- Subjects
MANTODEA; FOSSIL animals; JURASSIC Period; BIRDS of prey; ANIMAL morphology
- Publication
Geologica Carpathica, 2014, Vol 65, Issue 4, p285
- ISSN
1335-0552
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2478/geoca-2014-0019