A new Mazon-Creek-type fossil specimen is described as Sumixam maximus gen.and sp.nov., assigned to the taxon Archaeorthoptera Bethoux and Nel,2002(composed of Orthoptera and some fossil relatives):it exhibits one of ...A new Mazon-Creek-type fossil specimen is described as Sumixam maximus gen.and sp.nov., assigned to the taxon Archaeorthoptera Bethoux and Nel,2002(composed of Orthoptera and some fossil relatives):it exhibits one of the diagnostic character states of this taxon,which is the fusion of CuA(emerging from M+CuA)with CuP,or a branch of it.A more precise taxonomic assignment is out of reach.The new taxon exhibits a fusion of the anterior branch of MA with RP,and a point of divergence of MA and MP located near the point of divergence of CuA(from M + CuA),but lack a branching of CuPa.This unique combination of character states is probably derived with respect to a number of contemporaneous species.Sumixam maximus gen.and sp.nov.is most likely the closest known relative of the panorthopterans,which include all the recent Archaeorthoptera.展开更多
文摘A new Mazon-Creek-type fossil specimen is described as Sumixam maximus gen.and sp.nov., assigned to the taxon Archaeorthoptera Bethoux and Nel,2002(composed of Orthoptera and some fossil relatives):it exhibits one of the diagnostic character states of this taxon,which is the fusion of CuA(emerging from M+CuA)with CuP,or a branch of it.A more precise taxonomic assignment is out of reach.The new taxon exhibits a fusion of the anterior branch of MA with RP,and a point of divergence of MA and MP located near the point of divergence of CuA(from M + CuA),but lack a branching of CuPa.This unique combination of character states is probably derived with respect to a number of contemporaneous species.Sumixam maximus gen.and sp.nov.is most likely the closest known relative of the panorthopterans,which include all the recent Archaeorthoptera.
