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2016 in arthropod paleontology

This list of fossil arthropods described in 2016 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods of every kind that are expected to be described during the year 2016. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.

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Research

  • A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the Eocene tick Ixodes succineus is published by Dunlop et al. (2016).
  • A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the Carboniferous species Archaeometa nephilina and Arachnometa tuberculata is published by Selden, Dunlop & Garwood (2016), who interpret these taxa as harvestmen rather than spiders.

    • Research

  • Mesoprosopon triasinum is reinterpreted as an eumalacostracan larva by Hyžný, Haug & Haug (2016).
  • A study on the phylogenetic relationships of members of the genus Tealliocaris is published by Jones et al. (2016).
  • A study on the phylogenetic relationships of Antrimpos speciosus, indicating it was closely related to shrimps belonging to the genera Farfantepenaeus, Litopenaeus, Fenneropenaeus, Penaeus, Marsupenaeus and Melicertus, is published by Robalino et al. (2016).
  • A study on the shapes and sizes of eyes and ommatidia of Jurassic polychelidans is published by Audo et al. (2016).
  • New anatomical data on Hesslandona ventrospinata and Hesslandona angustata is published by Eriksson et al. (2016).
  • Early Miocene harpacticoid copepods belonging to five families (Canthocamptidae, Cletodidae, Darcythompsoniidae, Ectinosomatidae and Laophontidae) are described from Chiapas amber (Mexico) by Huys et al. (2016).
  • Fossil ephippia of members of the daphniid genus Ceriodaphnia are described from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Koonwarra Fossil Bed (Strzelecki Group; Victoria, Australia) by Hegna & Kotov (2016).

    • Research

  • A study of the morphology of the surface microstructure of the wings, head and abdomen of the Carboniferous megasecopteran Brodioptera sinensis is published by Prokop, Pecharová & Ren (2016).
  • A study on the anatomy of the respiratory and alimentary systems of Saurophthirus longipes is published by Strelnikova & Rasnitsyn (2016).
  • New anatomical data on the fossil beetle Onthophilus intermedius, obtained by using X-ray computed tomography, is published by Schwermann et al. (2016).
  • Setae comparable with setae of extant dermestid beetle larvae are described from the Cretaceous Burmese amber by Poinar & Poinar (2016).
  • A second specimen of the Cretaceous mosquito Burmaculex antiquus is described by Borkent & Grimaldi (2016).
  • A study of well-preserved kalligrammatid fossils from Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous sites in northeastern China, indicating that kalligrammatids convergently evolved some of the anatomical traits also present in butterflies, is published by Labandeira et al. (2016).
  • Fossilized termite nests with preserved fungus gardens within them are described from the Oligocene Songwe Member of the Nsungwe Formation in the Rukwa Rift Basin (Tanzania) by Roberts et al. (2016).
  • Chrysopoid larvae, myrmeleontoid (owlfly and nymphid) larvae and reduviid nymphs preserved carrying debris for camouflage are described from the Cretaceous Burmese, French and Lebanese ambers by Wang et al. (2016).
  • A fossilized bee nest is described from the Buxton-Norlim Limeworks in South Africa by Parker, Hopley & Kuhn (2016).

    • Research

  • Queues of the trilobite Trimerocephalus chopini are described from the Devonian (Famennian) of Poland by Błażejowski et al. (2016), who interpret these queues as representing mass migratory chains.
  • Disarticulated exoskeletons of the phacopids belonging to the species Omegops cornelius preserved within a nautiloid conch are described from the Devonian Hongguleleng Formation (China) by Zong, Fan & Gong (2016), who interpret the fossils as indicating that the trilobites had moulted within the living chamber of a dead nautiloid.

    • Research

  • A description of the ventral nerve cord in the early Cambrian euarthropod Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis is published by Yang et al. (2016).
  • A three-dimensionally preserved larva of Leanchoilia illecebrosa is described by Liu et al. (2016).
  • A study of the eye anatomy of the thylacocephalan (an arthropod of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly crustacean) Dollocaris is published by Vannier et al. (2016).
  • A study on the ability of bradoriid arthropods to close the shields of their carapace is published by Betts, Brock & Paterson (2016).
  • A study on the morphology of the digestive system and taphonomy of a variety of specimens of the Cambrian arthropod Campanamuta mantonae, known from the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (Greenland), is published by Strang, Armstrong & Harper (2016).

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