Title
Extralimital fossils of the "Gondwanan" family Sphaeropsocidae (Insecta, Psocodea)
Title Variants
Alternative:
Fossil Sphaeropsocidae
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 3523
By
Grimaldi, David A.
Engel, Michael S.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2006
Notes
Caption title.
"July 31, 2006."
Two new species and genera of minute, coleopteriform psocopterans, family Sphaeropsocidae (Nanopsocetae), are described from fossils preserved in Cretaceous ambers: Sphaeropsocoides canadensis Grimaldi and Engel, n.gen., n.sp., from the Campanian of western Canada; and Sphaeropsocites lebanensis Grimaldi and Engel, n.gen., n.sp., from the Neocomian of Lebanon. These are the first described Mesozoic species of the family. Sphaeropsocus kuenowii Hagen in mid-Eocene Baltic amber is redescribed in detail. The 14 described Recent species of the family (in the genera Sphaeropsocopsis and Badonnelia) have natural distributions that are largely restricted to southern portions of the Southern Hemisphere, but Eocene and now Cretaceous fossils reveal a formerly global distribution of the family. Hypothesized relationships of the five genera indicate basal positions of the fossil genera, and probably an entirely Tertiary age of the Recent genera Sphaeropsocopsis and Badonnelia, which would thus be too young for these two genera to have been affected by gondwanan drift.
Subjects
Amber fossils
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Baltic Sea Region
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Canada, Western
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Cretaceous
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Eocene
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Geographical distribution
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Insects, Fossil
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Lebanon
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Paleontology
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Phylogeny
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Sphaeropsocidae
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Sphaeropsocites lebanensis
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Sphaeropsocoides canadensis
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Sphaeropsocus kuenowii
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3523 2006
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3523[1:EFOTGF]2.0.CO;2
OCLC:
70810635
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