First Iberian aspidothoracid megasecopteran insect and associated plants evidencing herbivory in a tropical Carboniferous forest from León, Spain

First Iberian aspidothoracid megasecopteran insect and associated plants evidencing herbivory in a tropical Carboniferous forest from León, Spain

We describe Aspidothorax hispanicus sp. nov. from Gzhelian, Pennsylvanian strata of León, Spain, representing the first occurrence of Aspidothoracidae in the Iberian Peninsula. This discovery expands the paleogeographical range of the family, previously known only from the Russian Federation and...

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Main Authors: ARTAI A. SANTOS, ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ-ORÚE, ENRIQUE PEÑALVER, STEPHEN MCLOUGHLIN, JOSÉ B. DIEZ
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Paleobiology PAS 2025-03-01
Series:Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Subjects:
insecta
megasecoptera
paleoptera
plant-insect interactions
tropical paleoecosystem
gzhelian
carboni ferous
león province
spain
Online Access:https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app70/app012032024.pdf
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