Article: A new japygid dipluran from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil
Publication: Palaeontology
Volume:
44
Part:
5
Publication Date:
September
2001
Page(s):
1025
–
1031
Author(s):
Heather M. Wilson and David M. Martill
Abstract
The first Mesozoic japygid (Hexapoda: Diplura), Ferrojapyx vivax gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation of north-east Brazil. There are only two previously described occurrences of japygids in the fossil record: in Miocene or Pliocene onyx marble from Arizona and from the Carboniferous (Westphalian D) Francis Creek Shale of Mazon Creek, Illinois.