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Amphibian Biodiversity and Distribution Changes From the Paleozoic in China

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Vertically exploring the animals’ biodiversity and distribution change trajectories and horizontally demonstrating their association with the existing floral structures are critically required to integrally analyze their biodiversity changes and predict their future survival trends.
Hao Pan, Gaigai Guo, Jing Wang, Gang He, Songtao Guo, Pei Zhang, Rong Hou, Gu Fang, Yuli Li, Ruliang Pan, Kang Huang, Baoguo Li, Lipi Buch   +12 more
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Four new species of hangingflies (Insecta, Mecoptera, Bittacidae) from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China

ZooKeys, 2014
Two new species of Mongolbittacus Petrulevičius, Huang & Ren, 2007, M. speciosus sp. n. and M. oligophlebius sp. n., and two new species of Exilibittacus Yang, Ren & Shih, 2012, E. foliaceus sp. n. and E. plagioneurus sp.
Sulin Liu, ChungKun Shih, Dong Ren
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Anomopterellidae restored, with two new genera and its phylogeny in Evanioidea (Hymenoptera). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundAnomopterellidae was originally classified as a family within the Evanioidea, and later lowered to a subfamily, Anomopterellinae, of Praeaulacidae. Up to date, only Rasnitsyn 1975, with four species, was assigned to Anomopterellinae.
Longfeng Li, Alexandr P Rasnitsyn, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren   +3 more
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Quantitative Assessments and Taxonomic Revisions of the Genus Urosyntexis With New Species From Daohugou, China (Hymenoptera: Anaxyelidae)

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Three new species of Urosyntexis, U. volita sp. nov., U. forta sp. nov., and U. ensia sp. nov., belonging to the subfamily Anaxyelinae of Anaxyelidae were described and figured based on three well‐preserved specimens from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Northeastern China.
Mei Wang, Yi Li, Chungkun Shih, Jialiang Zhuang, Dong Ren, Kar Hoe Loh   +5 more
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Revision of Anomopterella Rasnitsyn, 1975 (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Anomopterellidae) with two new Middle Jurassic species from northeastern China

Geologica Carpathica, 2014
New Anomopterella Rasnitsyn, 1975, wasps from the Jiulongshan Formation (Bathonian/Callovian) at Daohugou (Inner Mongolia of China), with well-preserved wings, body, antennae and tarsi, document relationship among species and enhance our understanding of
Li Longfeng, Shih Chungkun, Ren Dong
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A targeted gene phylogenetic framework to investigate diversification in the highly diverse yet geographically restricted red devil spiders (Araneae, Dysderidae)

Cladistics, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 577-597, December 2024.
ABSTRACT The family Dysderidae is a highly diverse group of nocturnal ground‐dwelling and active‐hunter spiders. Dysderids are mostly restricted to the Western Palearctic, and particularly rich and abundant around the Mediterranean region. Interestingly, the distribution of species richness among its 24 genera and three subfamilies is highly biased—80%
Silvia Adrián‐Serrano, Martina Pavlek, Miquel A. Arnedo   +2 more
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Paleopteran molecular clock: Time drift and recent acceleration

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2024.
Constant evolution rates, which form the foundation of the strict molecular clock model, do not apply in the case of Paleoptera, highlighting a notable bias in the molecular clock hypothesis. The current biodiversity may be the outcome of a relatively recent, exponential increase in base substitution rates.
Soichi Osozawa, André Nel
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The first fossil wedge-shaped beetle (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae) from the middle Jurassic of China

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2017
A new species of Ripiphoridae Gemminger & Harold, 1870, Archaeoripiphorus nuwa gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated from a well-preserved impression fossil from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation collected at Daohugou Village, Shantou ...
Yun Hsiao, Yali Yu, Congshuang Deng, Hong Pang   +3 more
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The evolutionary history of Coleoptera (Insecta) in the late Palaeozoic and the Mesozoic

Systematic Entomology, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 355-388, July 2024.
Structural transformations of the elytra and abdomen played a major role in the early beetle evolution in the Permian. Polyphaga appear late in the fossil record, with only a few fossils of Elateriformia in the Late Triassic. Several factors were involved in the enormous diversification of beetles in the Cretaceous but evolutionary interactions with ...
Rolf G. Beutel, Chunpeng Xu, Edmund Jarzembowski, Robin Kundrata, Brendon E. Boudinot, Duane D. McKenna, Jakub Goczał   +6 more
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The presence of the recurrent veinlet in the Middle Jurassic Nymphidae (Neuroptera): a unique character condition in Myrmeleontoidea

ZooKeys, 2013
A well-developed recurrent veinlet is found in the forewing of two species of Nymphidae from the Middle Jurassic locality of Daohugou (Inner Mongolia, China), Liminympha makarkini Ren & Engel and Daonymphes bisulca gen. et sp. n.
Vladimir Makarkin, Qiang Yang, Chaofan Shi, Ren Dong   +3 more
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