New Jurassic water bug from Morrison Formation, Utah

[Oxytropidoceras]

Morrison Formation yields remains of predatory 

insect. Utah State Parks Blog, Vernal, Utah

https://stateparks.utah.gov/2020/05/20/famous-dinosaur-producing-rocks-in-utah-yield-fossil-of-large-predatory-insect/

 

Jurassic bug: Researchers find 151-million-year-old 

Morrisonnepa Jurassica insect fossil in Utah

by Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, May 22, 2020

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/21/morrisonnepa-jurassica-151-million-year-old-bug-fossil-utah/5234187002/

 

the paper is:

 

Lara, M.B., Foster, J.R., Kirkland, J.I. and Howells, 

T.F., 2020. First fossil true water bugs (Heteroptera, 

Nepomorpha) from Upper Jurassic strata of North 

America (Morrison Formation, southeastern Utah). 

Historical Biology, pp.1-9.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2020.1755283

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.