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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16AFF9C65D8DB2B51B0AB7E" bold="true" box="[151,423,1066,1092]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="60">Nodalula dalinghensis</emphasis>
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<figureCitation id="136C2A2EF16AFF9C65D8DB4C5113AB5D" box="[151,260,1101,1127]" captionStart-0="FIGURE 1" captionStart-1="FIGURE 2" captionStart-2="FIGURE 3" captionStartId-0="2.[151,255,1321,1345]" captionStartId-1="3.[151,255,1610,1634]" captionStartId-2="5.[151,255,594,618]" captionTargetBox-0="[220,1368,197,1301]" captionTargetBox-1="[252,1331,723,1588]" captionTargetBox-2="[184,1402,317,567]" captionTargetId-0="figure@2.[220,1369,197,1303]" captionTargetId-1="figure@3.[252,1332,723,1590]" captionTargetId-2="figure@5.[184,1403,317,568]" captionTargetPageId-0="2" captionTargetPageId-1="3" captionTargetPageId-2="5" captionText-0="FIGURE 1. Nodalula dalinghensis gen. et sp. nov., holotype Cat. No. 123517 (female), photograph of dorsal view (scale bar represents 10 mm)." captionText-1="FIGURE 2. Nodalula dalinghensis gen. et sp. nov., holotype Cat. No. 123517, Enlarged view showing the left fore and hind wings venation (scale bar represents 10 mm)." captionText-2="FIGURE 3. Nodalula dalinghensis gen. et sp. nov., holotype Cat. No. 123517, Enlarged view showing the apex of abdomen (scale bar represents 10 mm)." httpUri-0="https://zenodo.org/record/273747/files/figure.png" httpUri-1="https://zenodo.org/record/273748/files/figure.png" httpUri-2="https://zenodo.org/record/273749/files/figure.png" pageId="1" pageNumber="60">Figs. 13</figureCitation>
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16AFF9C65D8DB9C511AAB8D" bold="true" box="[151,269,1181,1207]" pageId="1" pageNumber="60">Material:</emphasis>
A nearly complete adult dragonfly with the four wings and the trunk (except the head) preserved with brown colour, without counterpart. The wings are strongly distorted, especially in their anterior parts. Cat. No. 123517.
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16AFF9C6588DA145140AA15" bold="true" box="[199,343,1301,1327]" pageId="1" pageNumber="60">Etymology:</emphasis>
Derived from Dalinghe, a name of a river in this area.
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Yixian Formation, Barremian, Early Cretaceous, Dalinghou, in the Jianshangou of Beipiao City, Liaoning Province (
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).
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A nearly complete body of an adult female with the thorax, abdomen, the six legs and four wings in connection, but with most part of head missing; whole body
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long.
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Thorax
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long, 8.0 mm wide; prothorax small,
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wide, with its anterior margin bend forward, narrower than posterior margin; synthorax large,
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long, 8.0 mm wide.
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Fore wing
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wide, approximately four times as long as wide; distance from base to nodus
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, nodus to pterostigma
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, base to arculus
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wide, approximately four times as long as wide; distance from base to nodus
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, nodus to pterostigma
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, pterostigma to wing apex
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, base to arculus
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; pterostigma
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wide, approximately 3 times as long as wide, covering three cross-veins, pterostigmal brace strong and distinctly oblique; no cross-vein in distal antesubnodal area (cordulegastrid gap); ScP with a strong curve at nodus; nodal cross-vein aligned with ScP at nodus, perpendicular to C and RA; subnodus not well-preserved; in fore wing about 14 secondary antenodal and antesubnodal cross-veins, not aligned; in hind wing about 12 secondary antenodal and antesubnodal cross-veins, not aligned; Ax1 well basal and Ax2 distal of discoidal triangle, with two secondary cross-veins between them; base of
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2 aligned with subnodus;
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2 and IR2 with a double curve;
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3/4 and MA also undulate but less distinctly than
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2; Rspl well-defined and parallel to IR2, with one row of cells between it and IR2; IR1 short, with its base below middle of pterostigma; arculus straight, perpendicular to RA, with its costal part distinctly longer than its ventral part;
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and MA well-separated in the arculus; discoidal triangle in fore and hind wings transverse, of similar shape, although the fore wing one is slightly narrower than that of hind wing, both divided in two cells by a cross-vein, distal side MAb slightly curved; anterior margin (MA) of hypertriangle more or less straight; hypertriangle elongate and narrow, free of cross-veins; subtriangles of fore and hind wings unicellular, but well-defined by PsA vein, that of fore wing being broader than that of hind wing, with its posterior margin more rounded; postdiscoidal area of fore wing with two rows of cells just distal of triangle, three in hind wing; Mspl well defined and parallel to MA, with one row of cells between them; hind wing MP somewhat shortened and distinctly curved towards hind margin, reaching this margin nearly opposite nodus; hind wing area between MP and CuAa not very broad, with only one row of transverse cells near discoidal triangle; CuAa curved, with only four posterior branches; basal part of CuA straight but rather long,
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long; anal loop complete rather transverse, rhombus-like, divided into seven cells; anal area rather broad, with five rows of cells between anal loop and posterior wing margin; hind wing base of anal margin rounded (female).
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F169FF9F65D8DA28510BAA7B" bold="true" box="[151,284,1321,1345]" pageId="2" pageNumber="61">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
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, holotype Cat. No. 123517 (female), photograph of dorsal view (scale bar represents 10 mm).
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Abdomen
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long,
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wide; first abdominal segment well developed and large, obconic in form, its anterior margin about 1.5 time as wide as its posterior margin; second abdominal segment longer, but narrower than first, about three times as long as wide; third segment similar to second, about 2.3 times as long as wide; fourth and fifth similar, slightly broader than third; but slight shorter than the 3rd; sixth similar to fourth in width, but shorter, about two times as long as wide; seventh shorter than sixth, longer than wide; eighth shorter than seventh, as long as wide; a median longitudinal carina on second to eighth terga; a pattern of light coloration on second to sixth segments, consisting in two longitudinal stripes and two outer apical spots; two superior anal appendages normally developed; median appendage shorter than superior anal appendages; no visible ovipositor.
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F168FF9E6757D94B52A8A958" bold="true" box="[536,703,1610,1634]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">gen. et sp. nov.</emphasis>
, holotype Cat. No. 123517, Enlarged view showing the left fore and hind wings venation (scale bar represents 10 mm).
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F168FF9E6588D9B35143A9F6" bold="true" box="[199,340,1714,1740]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Discussion:</emphasis>
The attribution of
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F168FF9E677FD9B2528AA9F6" box="[560,669,1715,1740]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="62">Nodalula</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21057C2F168FF9E67EBD9B35306A9F6" box="[676,785,1714,1740]" pageId="3" pageNumber="62" rank="genus">gen. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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to the Cavilabiata
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is supported by the following characters: distal part of antesubnodal area free of cross-veins (cordulegastrid gap); gaff (= basal CuA before its branching) of the hind wing distinctly prolonged. The third venational character, viz. the
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3/ 4 and MA slightly undulating in both pairs of wings, is impossible to determine because of the important deformations of these wings.
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Affinities with the Cordulegastrida
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can be excluded because
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has not the female ovipositor strongly elongated into a gently tapered spade, and the venational synapomorphies of this clade, viz. wings with a basal furcation of IR2 basal of the lestine oblique vein; pterostigmal brace vein reduced; discoidal triangles of similar elongate shape in both pairs of wings, correlated with a secondarily less distinct pseudo-anal vein PsA and subdiscoidal triangle. On the contrary, it has the venational synapomorphies of the Brachystigmata
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, i.e. relatively short pterostigmata that cover only 13 complete cells; in the hind wing the gaff (= basal CuA before its branching) is strongly prolonged and very straight (in the ground plan); area between MP and CuA basally widened; terminal branch of CuAa seems to be secondarily branched on CuA;
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3/4 and MA strictly parallel up to the hind margin; area between
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2 and IR2 distally distinctly widened, with more than one cell row in the distal half. Within this clade, the comparison with the Mesozoic Nannogomphidae
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is not easy because there is no strong synapomorphy for this family. Affinities with
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Handlirsch, 1906
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are excluded because the latter is characterized by the synapomorphy CuAa without posterior branches (
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Bechly
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, 1996
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). Affinities with
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Bechly
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, 1998 (originally in
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, but latter transferred into the Nannogomphidae) are more delicate to discuss. Nevertheless,
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can be attributed to the Eubrachystigmata
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, sister group of the Nannogomphidae, on the basis of the apomorphy hind wing CuAa more distinctly curved towards the hind margin, and thus further shortened with less than five posterior branches. Within this group,
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differs from
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Pritykina, 1977 (
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) in its crossed discoidal cells, presence of well-defined Rspl and Mspl, presence of a distinct pterostigmal brace; shorter pterostigma, lestine oblique cross-vein shifted basally one cell distal of the subnodus, and narrower and smaller hind wing anal cell. The monophyly of the Neobrachystigmata
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, sister group of the
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, is supported by the following synapomorphies: arculus not distinctly angled but more or less straight, with posterior part (crossvein) of arculus distinctly shorter than anterior part. This character seems to be present in
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although it is not obvious because the arculus are partly broken; hind wing MP distinctly curved towards the hind margin and thus somewhat shortened, ending basal of the level of the nodus. Despite the deformation of the costal region of its wings, it seems that
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16FFF99671DDB0952A8AB1B" box="[594,703,1032,1057]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="63">Nodalula</emphasis>
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has a significant curvature of the hind wing MP. Within this group, our fossil has not the synapomorphy of the Chlorogomphida
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, viz. hypertriangles much longer than discoidal triangles in both pairs of wings.
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shares with the Paneurypalpidomorpha
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, sister group of the Chlorogomphida, two synapomorphies, i.e. lestine oblique vein only 12 cells distad of the subnodus in both pairs of wings, fore wing ax1 shifted basal of the level of the distal angle of the discoidal triangle, but not several others, viz. anterior margin of hypertriangle distinctly convex, especially in the hind wings, because of a basally arched MA, fore wing discoidal triangle more or less transverse instead of elongate, and in both pairs of wings Ax1 and Ax2 relatively close together with not more than one secondary antenodal cross-vein between them. The Paneurypalpidomorpha comprises the Mesozoic Juracorduliidae Bechly, 1998 and the Eurypalpidomorpha.
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also differs from
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Bechly,
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its less elongate anal loop and CuAa with more branches (plesiomorphies) (Bechly, 1998). It has not the main synapomorphy of the Eurypalpidomorpha
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(clade comprising the Mesozoic families Valdicorduliidae
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, Araripephlebiidae Bechly, 1998, Eocorduliidae
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, Araripelibellulidae
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, and the fossil and modern Eurypalpida
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), viz. in the hind wing the elongated gaff (= basal CuA before its branching) sigmoidally curved, CuAb shifted very far distally, and CuAa with only one or two posterior branches (
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;
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;
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;
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; Bechly, 1998).
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In conclusion,
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16FFF99643CD9B151F7A9F3" box="[371,480,1712,1737]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="63">Nodalula</emphasis>
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can be considered as a Neobrachystigmata that does not belong to the clade Chlorogomphida and shares some synapomorphies with the Paneurypalpidomorpha, but which is neither a Juracorduliidae nor a Eurypalpidomorpha. It could well be the sister group of the whole clade Paneurypalpidomorpha.
</paragraph>
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A larval dragonfly from the same strata described by
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has been placed in the clade Cavilabiata. This specimen shows some strong similarities with the ultimate larval instars of
<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16FFF996043D879558CA8AB" box="[1292,1435,1912,1937]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="63">Sona nectes</emphasis>
described from western
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(
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). The ultimate larval instars always display few comparable features to the corresponding adult in
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. This ultimate larval instars of the
<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16FFF99611BD8C954C9A8DB" box="[1108,1246,1992,2017]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="63">Sona nectes</emphasis>
type larva bear strongly developed spines rows on legs that resemble those of
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16EFF9866CCDF99549BAF8B" box="[899,1164,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="64">Nodalula dalinghensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B923EAB9F16EFF9861DADF965547AF8B" bold="true" box="[1173,1360,151,177]" pageId="5" pageNumber="64">gen. et sp. nov.</emphasis>
However, their correspondence still remains uncertain due to the strong morphological gap between larvae and adults.
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