Articles | Volume 20, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-253-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-20-253-2017
Research article
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07 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 07 Nov 2017

A new, rare and distinctive species of Panorthoptera (Insecta, Archaeorthoptera) from the Upper Carboniferous of Xiaheyan (Ningxia, China)

Jun-Jie Gu, Olivier Béthoux, and Dong Ren

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A new fossil species relative of grasshoppers, crickets and katydids is described from the famous Xiaheyan locality (China). Compared to other species recovered from these 310-million-year-old strata, Sinogerarus pectinatus gen. and spec. nov. is likely most closely related to extant forms. The group it belongs to will become preeminent a few million years later but is very rare at Xiaheyan.
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