Fossil insects from the Middle Ecca (Lower permian) of southern Africa
Date
1976
Authors
Riek, E. F.
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Publisher
Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research
Abstract
Three insects are recorded from carbonaceous shales of Middle Ecca age from Hammanskraal, near Pretoria. Thaumalophora pranotalis gen. et sp. nov., is an aquatic nymph of the Paraplecoptera showing lateral abdominal gills. Sysciophlebia kovacsae sp. nov. is a tegmen of a spiloblattinid cockroach. The third specimen is a small protopsyllidiid nymph. Only three insects of greater age are known from southern Africa.
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Keywords
Fossil insects; Ecca; Permian; Southern Africa
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