Journal Article
Systematics of Mesozoic ‘Arctic’ polar cockroaches
Peter V. V. Vršanský; Zuzana Kováčová; Dmitrij V. Vasilenko; Helena Pálková; Štefan Nagy; Daniel Kosnáč; Ľubomír Vidlička; Sarah K. Martin
Biologia · Vol. 80, Issue 1 · pp. 51-77 · 2024
Abstract
This is an exclusively systematic background study reviewing 85 Mesozoic (latest Jurassic and Cretaceous) cockroaches and praying mantises from northern palaeo-polar (i.e. deposited within polar circles) deposits in Yakutia, Taimyr, Khabarovsk, Magadan and Chukotka (Russia), revealing 15 new species, which are herein characterised using systematic two-way analysis. The taphonomic conditions within these ‘Arctic’ paleo- polar sites were strongly influenced by long periods of pre-depositional transport.