The first Mesozoic microwhip scorpion (Palpigradi): a new genus and species in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar

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• 作者：Michael S. Engel ; Laura C. V. Breitkreuz ; Chenyang Cai…
• 关键词：Burmese amber ; Cenomanian ; Chelicerata ; Mesozoic ; Palpigradi ; Taxonomy
• 刊名：Naturwissenschaften
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：103
• 期：3-4
• 全文大小：1,522 KB
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• 作者单位：Michael S. Engel (1) (2)
  Laura C. V. Breitkreuz (1)
  Chenyang Cai (3)
  Mabel Alvarado (1)
  Dany Azar (4)
  Diying Huang (3)
  
  1. Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive–Suite 140, Lawrence, KS, 66045-4415, USA
  2. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY, 10024-5192, USA
  3. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, People’s Republic of China
  4. Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Biology, Lebanese University, Fanar Matn, P.O. Box 26110217, Lebanon
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Life Sciences
  Environment
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-1904

文摘

A fossil palpigrade is described and figured from mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber from northern Myanmar. Electrokoenenia yaksha Engel and Huang, gen. n. et sp. n., is the first Mesozoic fossil of its order and the only one known as an inclusion in amber, the only other fossil being a series of individuals encased in Pliocene onyx marble and 94–97 million years younger than E. yaksha. The genus is distinguished from other members of the order but is remarkably consistent in observable morphological details when compared to extant relatives, likely reflecting a consistent microhabitat and biological preferences over the last 100 million years.