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A new damsel-dragonfly from the Lower Jurassic of northwestern China and its paleobiogeographic significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2016

Daran Zheng
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China 〈dranzheng@gmail.com〉, 〈suchin@hku.hk〉 State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China 〈bowang@nigpas.ac.cn〉, 〈hczhang@nigpas.ac.cn〉
André Nel
Affiliation:
Institutde Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France 〈anel@mnhn.fr〉
Bo Wang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China 〈bowang@nigpas.ac.cn〉, 〈hczhang@nigpas.ac.cn〉 Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1, Beichen West Road, Beijing 100101, China
Edmund A. Jarzembowski
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China 〈bowang@nigpas.ac.cn〉, 〈hczhang@nigpas.ac.cn〉 Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK 〈edj@nigpas.ac.cn〉
Su-Chin Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China 〈dranzheng@gmail.com〉, 〈suchin@hku.hk〉
Haichun Zhang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China 〈bowang@nigpas.ac.cn〉, 〈hczhang@nigpas.ac.cn〉

Abstract

A new species of the Lower Jurassic genus Dorsettia Whalley, 1985 is described from the Lower Jurassic Badaowan Formation of the Junggar Basin, northwestern China, as Dorsettia sinica new species. It provides additional morphological characters for this genus and is the earliest Jurassic dragonfly in China after the end-Triassic extinction. The occurrence of Dorsettia in England and northwestern China indicates that the end-Triassic extinction probably did not have a drastic influence on damsel-dragonflies, or that the dispersal of damsel-dragonflies was relatively quick during the earliest Jurassic.

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