Adiël Klompmaker, Peter Kloess, Clément Jauvion, Jamie Brezina, Neil Landman
Cretaceous-aged methane seep carbonates in the Western Interior Seaway, USA, have yielded a relatively high diversity and concentration of fossils, including decapod crustaceans, compared to their surrounding, contemporaneous sediments. With technological advances in non-destructive imaging techniques, the internal anatomy of decapods can be studied in remarkable detail. Here, we present a brachyuran crab specimen from an upper Campanian methane seep carbonate in South Dakota, USA. While the external morphology of the crab is insufficient for species identification ( Secretanella sp.), remarkable details of the internal morphology are preserved including soft tissues. Four phyllobranchiate gills are visible due
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Fernando Varela-Hernández, Francisco Riquelme, Roberto Guerrero
The first fossil ant species of the New World genus Forelius (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) is described. The type material is a Miocene amber inclusion from the Montecristo mine near Simojovel, Chiapas, southwestern Mexico. The new species is named Forelius chenpauch sp. nov. It differs from its congeners by having a unique combination of characters: antennal scapes reaching the posterior margin of the head; pronotum with six erect hairs; mesonotum with four erect hairs; propodeum with four erect hairs; front and dorsum of head, dorsum of pronotum, dorsum of mesonotum and propodeum covered with a fine striation. Forelius chenpauch sp. nov. has a rounded spiracle, which could be considered a plesiomorphic character closely related to the Forelius group from the north of the Amazon basin. Accordingly, the current divergence estimates of Forelius as a single genus from the Leptomyrmex + Forelius + Dorymyrmex clade (ca. 27 Ma) and the occurrence of Forelius chenpauch sp. nov. in the fossil record (ca. 23 Ma), may suggest that the rounded spiracle is a plesiomorphic state probably widespread since the Miocene from southern Mexico to northern South America.
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