New dictyopteran fossils from the Pennsylvanian of West Beijing, China

Abstract

Carboniferous insects from China are rare. Here we report a new fossiliferous locality at the Yexi Section, western Beijing, from where Pennsylvanian insects have been discovered. These insect fossils collected from the black shales of the Benxi Formation (middle–late Moscovian to early Kasimovian) are associated with rich plant remains. The fossils are represented mainly by dictyopteran tegmina that cannot be further identified. The discovery is helpful for our understanding of the diversity and preservation of Carboniferous insects in western Beijing and also the Benxi Formation of North China.

Permian-Triassic insect diversity revealed by fossils from China

“…We counted 10 items, but the data showed that the data of 4 items were relatively complete and had a clear trend (Table 1). The specific performance is: [21] 2 genus P2 Yinping Anhui Fu et.al.,2021 [22] 2 [23] 8 genus 5 genus T2 Tongchuan Shannxi Zhao, 2020 [18] Proto-Orthoptera distributed 2 genera, 1 genus and 1 genus in Shanxi, Henan and Anhui in the middle of the North Permian period, respectively, and 6 genera in Ningxia in the early Triassic period, which showed that the overall performance was that the Permian had a decreasing trend, but the diversity of the early Triassic suddenly increased significantly. It is not distributed in South China (Fig.…”

A Scientific Investigation of the Shangfang Mountain Yunshui Cave in Beijing Based on LiDAR Technology

“…In the early 1980s, Ye Junlin et al revisited the cave and compared the new measurement data with the old data. Huang Wanbo et al also visited the cave to study the formation of vertebrate fossils [15]. The Yunshui Cave in Shangfang Mountain is a place of high cultural and scientific value.…”