{"title":"The first fossil lace bug (Heteroptera: Tingidae) from New Zealand","authors":"U. Kaulfuss, E. Heiss","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2023.2185678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2185678","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The first fossil lace bug (Tingidae) from New Zealand is described from the earliest Miocene Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte in Otago. The single specimen, observable in ventral position in finely laminated lacustrine diatomite, belongs to Tingidae based on the areolate (lace-like) paranotum and hemelytra and the presence of sternal laminae. The incomplete preservation does not allow for a definite identification of the genus, and the fossil is provisionally identified as Tingidae gen. et sp. indet. This new record adds the family Tingidae to the Miocene Heteroptera fauna of New Zealand and the Australasian region. Uwe Kaulfuss [uwe.kaulfuss@uni-goettingen.de], Department of Animal Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Göttingen, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany Ernst Heiss [aradus@aon.at], Tiroler Landesmuseum, Josef-Schraffl-Strasse 2a, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132532656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sangmin Lee, G. Shi, B. Runnegar, J. B. Waterhouse
{"title":"Kungurian (Cisuralian/Early Permian) brachiopods from the Snapper Point Formation, southern Sydney Basin, southeastern Australia","authors":"Sangmin Lee, G. Shi, B. Runnegar, J. B. Waterhouse","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2151045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2151045","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Elements of a high-latitude (∼60–70°S) and low-diversity early Kungurian (Cisuralian/Early Permian) brachiopod fauna have been sporadically reported from the sandstone-dominated Snapper Point Formation (SPF) in the southern Sydney Basin of southeastern Australia for more than a half-century, but a detailed description of this fauna is not yet available. In this paper we describe 12 brachiopod species and an indeterminate ingelarellid from the SPF, including one new species (Tasmanospirifer jervisbayensis sp. nov. Waterhouse & Lee). Though this brachiopod fauna is evidently associated with an interglacial stratigraphic interval, its taxonomic characteristics overall resemble those from stratigraphically bounding glacial intervals. This association is interpreted to indicate persistence and the strong endemic nature of the Permian Eastern Australian biogeographic province in high-latitude eastern Gondwana, regardless of glacial/interglacial climate states during the Cisuralian. Biostratigraphically, the SPF brachiopod fauna is divisible into two distinctive stratigraphic assemblages: the Notospirifer cf. triplicata–Simplicisulcus sp. Assemblage in the lower part of the formation and the Johndearia brevis–Sulciplica transversa Assemblage in the upper part, each distinguished by a set of unique species. Sangmin Lee [sangminlee76@gmail.com] and G. R. Shi [guang@uow.edu.au] School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong Faculty of Science Medicine and Health, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia Bruce Runnegar [runnegar@ucla.edu] Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA J. B. Waterhouse [permia@xtra.co.nz] Oamaru, Oamaru, New Zealand.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130918877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New genera and species of parachoristids (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Tongchuan entomofauna of Shaanxi Province, northwestern China","authors":"Xinneng Lian, Chen-yang Cai, Diying Huang","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2023.2168059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2168059","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Parachoristidae, one of the most characteristic mecopteran families of the late Permian and Triassic, is widely distributed throughout the world, but only one species has been described from China thus far. Two new genera and three new species of Parachoristidae are here described and illustrated from the late Middle Triassic Tongchuan entomofauna: Sinoparachorista rara gen. et sp. nov., Virgulaparachorista tongchuanensis gen. et sp. nov., and V. elegans gen. et sp. nov. These two new genera can be placed in Parachoristidae unambiguously based on the presence of a two-branched Sc with rounded fork, pectinate Rs, M with at least six branches, and M2 with two branches. The new discovery enriches the palaeodiversity of parachoristids in the Triassic of China and considerably expands the known morphological disparity of wing venation in Parachoristidae. Xinneng Lian [xnlian@nigpas.ac.cn ], Chenyang Cai [cycai@nigpas.ac.cn ] and Diying Huang [dyhuang@nigpas.ac.cn ], State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, PR China.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126745296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Flannery, T. Rich, P. Vickers-Rich, E. G. Veatch, K. Helgen
{"title":"The Gondwanan Origin of Tribosphenida (Mammalia)","authors":"T. Flannery, T. Rich, P. Vickers-Rich, E. G. Veatch, K. Helgen","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2132288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2132288","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A review of the Southern Hemisphere Mesozoic tribosphenic mammal fossil record supports the hypothesis that Tribosphenida arose in the Southern Hemisphere during the Early Jurassic, around 50 million years prior to the clade’s reliably dated first appearance in the Northern Hemisphere. Mesozoic Southern Hemisphere tribosphenic mammals are known from Australia, Madagascar, South America and the Indian subcontinent, and are classified into three families: Bishopidae (fam. nov.), Ausktribosphenidae and Henosferidae. These are stem therians, and considerable morphological evolution occurred within the lineage between the Jurassic and late Early Cretaceous. Important dental modifications include a graduated transition between premolars and molars, development of molar wear facets V and VI, loss of facets for postdentary bones, reduction in the Meckelian groove and development of a true dentary angle. Previous classifications of Southern Hemisphere tribosphenic mammals are ambiguous because information from the upper dentition has been lacking. Upper molars attributed to the late Early Cretaceous (Albian) Southern Hemisphere group Bishopidae fam. nov. are now known to possess a prominent protocone and stylar cusp C. We thus consider bishopids to be the sister group to Theria. Timothy F. Flannery [tim.flannery@textpublishing.com.au], Kristofer M. Helgen [Kris.Helgen@Australian.Museum], Australian Museum, 1 William St Sydney 2000, Australia; Thomas H. Rich [trich@museum.vic.gov.au], Museums Victoria, PO Box 666, Q28 Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia; Patricia Vickers-Rich [pat.rich@monash.edu; prich@swin.edu.au], School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia; Swinburne University of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia; Elizabeth Grace Veatch [elizabeth.veatch@gmail.com], National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123936563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Latest Miocene ostracods from the Bookpurnong Formation in the Murray Basin of southeastern Australia: shallow marine migrants into an epicontinental sea","authors":"Abbey P. McDonald, M. Warne","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2133169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2133169","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The uppermost Miocene Bookpurnong Formation within the Murray Basin of southeastern Australia overlies a regionally extensive subaerial unconformity formed by relatively low late Miocene eustatic sea levels, and the initial phase of the Kosciuszko Uplift tectonic event. A diverse marine fossil ostracod fauna has been recovered from the Bookpurnong Formation, and is associated with a marine transgression that flooded inland regions of southeastern Australia to form a shallow epicontinental sea. Many of the Bookpurnong Formation ostracods represent immigrant taxa, with species such as Puriana lubbockiana, evidencing a subtropical range expansion of thermophilic warm water forms into southern mid-latitudes. We attribute this to warm plumes from the East Australian Current, which would have impacted southeastern Australia at that time. In general, the Bookpurnong Formation ostracod assemblages indicate low to moderate energy shallow offshore palaeoenvironments subject to warm-temperate and subtropical conditions. One new genus and five new species are described: Fortistriginglymus gen. nov., Bradyleberis praecristatella sp. nov., Callistocythere bookpurnongensis sp. nov., Callistocythere mchenryi sp. nov., Callistocythere zigzaga sp. nov., and Parakeijia notoreticularis sp. nov.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"58 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123206789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new species of Attinopora (Bryozoa, Cinctiporidae) from the early Miocene of Atlantic Patagonia","authors":"J. López-Gappa, L. Pérez","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2126009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2126009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Cinctiporidae is a family of cyclostome bryozoans that ranged from the Paleocene to Recent; however, they also include a questionable record from the Upper Cretaceous of South Africa. Most cinctiporids occur in the Paleocene to Pleistocene strata of New Zealand and the Chatham Islands, with only two living species now found in New Zealand. This study confirms the presence of cinctiporid bryozoans in South America with the description of a new fossil species, Attinopora atlantica sp. nov., based on specimens found in early Miocene deposits of the Monte León Formation, along the Atlantic margin of Argentine Patagonia. Attinopora atlantica sp. nov. differs from the other known species of Attinopora in having a much higher number of zooids per annular ring. The presence of cinctiporids in the early Miocene of Patagonia supports hypothesized biogeographical links between South America and Australasia during the early Neogene.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125449754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Rich, Missy Lowery, M. Hall, L. Kool, J. Bevitt, Matt A. White, P. Vickers-Rich
{"title":"A new Cretaceous fossil mammal locality from the Bass Coast of southeastern Australia","authors":"T. Rich, Missy Lowery, M. Hall, L. Kool, J. Bevitt, Matt A. White, P. Vickers-Rich","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2119600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2119600","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Mesozoic mammals from the polar regions of Australian Gondwana are exceptionally rare. The recovery of a partial jaw attributable to the australosphenid Ausktribosphenos nyktos from a new locality along the Bass Coast of Victoria is, therefore, significant because it comes from an uppermost Barremian to lowermost Aptian grit with abundant plant material that differs lithologically from other previously productive laminated sandstone deposits. We interpret this as evidence for a floodplain habitat that was distant from local water bodies. The identification of a new Cretaceous mammal locality in Australia highlights the exciting prospects for future fossil discoveries. Thomas H. Rich [trich@museum.vic.gov.au] Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, PO Box 666,Australia Melissa L. Lowery [melissalouiselowery@gmail.com] 82 Williams Street, Inverloch, Victoria, 3996, Australia Michael Hall [mike.hall@monash.edu] School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia Lesley Kool [koollesley@gmail.com] Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, 3001, Australia PO Box 666; School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia Joseph Bevitt [joseph.bevitt@ansto.gov.au] Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Lucas Heights, Nsw, 2234, Australia Matt White [fossilised@hotmail.com] University of New England, Armidale, Nsw, 2350, Australia Patricia Vickers-Rich [pat.rich@monash.edu, prich@swin.edu.au] School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Victoria, 3800, Australia; Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Swinburne University of Science and Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130521525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of the type material for two Palaeozoic ostracod species from southeast Australia","authors":"Tamara T. A. Camilleri, E. Weldon, M. Warne","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2129783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2129783","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The ‘Illaenus’ band of the Costerfield Siltstone in the Costerfield-Heathcote area contains pockets of Silurian (lower Wenlock) deposits that contain a rich invertebrate fauna. Several assemblages from the ‘Illaenus’ band have been described and include ostracod species referable to 13 genera. These specimens were housed at the Australian Government Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra, which was damaged by fire in 1953. Of the documented ostracod specimens, only three remain, but are in a degraded state. We reinterpret this historically important material as representing the types of Ctenobolbina proxima and Kayatia prima. Tamara T.A. Camilleri [tamara.camilleri@deakin.edu.au] and Mark T. Warne [mark.warne@deakin.edu.au], School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Centre for Integrative Ecology, Melbourne Campus, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia, and Museums Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia. Elizabeth A. Weldon [l.weldon@deakin.edu.au], School of Life and Environmental Sciences and Centre for Integrative Ecology, Melbourne Campus, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120979167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ghoshiasporites manjuae sp. nov., a new varimonolete spore from the upper Permian Raniganj Formation of the Damodar Basin, India","authors":"A. D’Rozario, Ahinsuk Barua, S. Bera","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2126008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2126008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A monolete spore from the upper Permian Raniganj Formation strata of the Madhukunda area in the Damodar Basin is described as Ghoshiasporites manjuae sp. nov. It is laevigate proximally but has a variable densely apiculate ornamentation distally, prompting its classification in the Subinfraturma Varimonoleti and Infraturma Sculptatomonoleti. The diagnostic features of the new species include a characteristic labrum associated with the monolete aperture and the presence of four types of densely placed projections on the distal surface: coni, spines, bacula and clavae. These states clearly distinguish Ghoshiasporites manjuae from Ghoshiasporites didecus, the only other varimonolete spore previously recorded from the Permian strata of India. Ashalata D’Rozario [ ashalatandc@gmail.com ], Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, India; Ahinsuk Barua [ dr.ahinsukbarua@gmail.com ], South Calcutta Girls’ College, 72, Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata 700 025, India; Subir Bera [ berasubir@yahoo.co.in ], Centre of Advanced Study, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35 Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, India.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124687174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First representative of the odonatan superfamily Triassolestoidea (Odonatoptera: Parazygoptera) from the Upper Triassic of the Korean Peninsula","authors":"A. Nel, G. Nam, C. Jouault","doi":"10.1080/03115518.2022.2130426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2022.2130426","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Koreatriassothemis elongatus gen. et sp. nov. is the first representative of the odonatan superfamily Triassolestoidea described from the Upper Triassic of the Republic of Korea. Despite close similarities with the genera Pseudotriassothemis and Triassoneura, exact affinities within Triassolestoidea remain uncertain, thus discoveries of more complete triassolestoid fossils are required to resolve relationships. The identification of K. elongatus gen. et sp. nov. shows that Odonatoptera and Triassolestoidea diversity was high during the Late Triassic and is currently underestimated. A ‘Samarura-like’ odonatopteran nymph is also identified from the same Upper Triassic outcrop, and may be referable to K. elongatus gen. et sp. nov. André Nel [anel@mnhn.fr], Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France; Gi-Soo Nam [nks33@naver.com] Gongju National University of Education, Gongju, Chungcheongnam-do 32553, Republic of Korea; Corentin Jouault [jouaultc0@gmail.com], Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France, and Université des Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, F-35000, Rennes, France, and CNRS, UMR 5554 Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095, Montpellier, France.","PeriodicalId":272731,"journal":{"name":"Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124685155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}