Chresmodidae
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| Family: | Chresmodidae Haase 1890
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Chresmodidae is an extinct family of insects within the superorder Polyneoptera.[2][3][4]
Genera
- Chresmoda Late Jurassic-Cenomanian, Worldwide
- Jurachresmoda Zhang, Ren & Shih, 2008 Middle Jurassic, Jiulongshan Formation[5]
- Sinochresmoda Zhang, Ren & Pang, 2008 Early Cretaceous, Yixian Formation[6]
Prochresmoda from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan is not currently considered part of the group and is considered to be more closely related to Triassophasma and Palaeochresmoda.[7]
Description
Chresmodidae are large enigmatic insects with very long specialized legs, probably adapted for skating on the water surface, similar to extant water skaters. They can reach a size of about 14 centimetres (5.5 in).[8]
These Polyneoptera (partial syn Archaeorthoptera) of uncertain position have been considered aquatic, living on the water surface, probably predaceous on nektonic small animals.[9][10]
They lived during the Cretaceous of Brazil, China, Lebanon, Spain, United Kingdom, as well as in the Jurassic of Germany and China, from ~166.0 to 94.3 Ma.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ "Chresmodidae - Information on Chresmodidae - Encyclopedia of Life". Retrieved 11 May 2015.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|encyclopedia=ignored (help) - ^ "family †Chresmodidae Haase, 1890". speciesfile.org. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ Delclos X, Nel A, Azar D, Bechly G, Dunlop JA, Engel MS, Heads SW The enigmatic Mesozoic insect taxon Chresmodidae (Polyneoptera): New palaeobiological and phylogenetic data, with the description of a new species from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil
- ^ ZHANG, XIN-WEN; REN, DONG; PANG, HONG; SHIH, CHUNG-KUN (2008-05-05). "A water-skiing chresmodid from the Middle Jurassic in Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China (Polyneoptera: Orthopterida)". Zootaxa. 1762 (1): 53. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1762.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ ZHANG, XIN-WEN; REN, DONG; PANG, HONG; SHIH, CHUNG-KUN (2008-02-13). "A new genus and species of Chresmodidae (Insecta: Gryllones) from Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Yixian Formation, Inner Mongolia, China". Zootaxa. 1702 (1): 26. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1702.1.2. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ Nel, André; Marchal-Papier, Francine; Béthoux, Olivier; Gall, Jean-Claude (January 2004). "A "stick insect-like" from the Triassic of the Vosges (France) ("pre-Tertiary Phasmatodea")". Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.) (in French). 40 (1): 31–36. doi:10.1080/00379271.2004.10697402. ISSN 0037-9271.
- ^ "Chresmoda obscura GERMAR, 1839 - Die Fossilien von Solnhofen". solnhofen-fossilienatlas.de. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ A. G. Ponomarenko Fossil insects from the Tithonian «Solnhofener Plattenkalke» in the Museum of Natural History, Vienna
- ^ A. Nel, D. Azar, X. Martinez-Delclos and E. Makhoul A new Upper Cretaceous species of Chresmoda from Lebanon - a latest representative of Chresmodidae (Insecta: Polyneoptera inc. sed.): first record of homeotic mutations in the fossil record of insects