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This site will focus on the Permian fossil insect Lagersttten of Kansas and Oklahoma (The Wellington Formation sites - see map on right):
Elmo, Kansas (Dickinson County)
Midco, Oklahoma (Noble County)
But there are other fossil localities representing other geological eras at which insect fossils have been found (though not in the numbers and varieties found at the Wellington sites):
Hamilton Quarry (Greenwood County, Kansas - Permo-Carboniferous)
Other insect beds in Kansas & Oklahoma - (Cretaceous, Carboniferous)
An issue of The Kansas School Naturalist titled "The Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas" (Vol. 46 No. 1, 16 pp., February, 2000, by Roy J. Beckemeyer) is available. A copy of it can be obtained free of charge from Emporia State University: Kansas School Naturalist, Div. of Biological Sciences, Box 4050, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas 66801-5087. (Although a donation of one or a few dollars to the Kansas School Naturalist Endowment Fund would help to fund additional publications in the series in the future. - Roy Beckemeyer)
NEW: ON-line Version of this Issue: THE PERMIAN INSECT FOSSILS OF ELMO, KANSAS
Beckemeyer, R.J. 2004. A new species of Martynovia Tillyard, 1932 (Insecta: Diaphanopterodea: Martynoviidae) from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 77(2):127-131.
Left: Holotype of Cyphoneurodes patriciae Beckemeyer 2004 as figured in the paper:
Beckemeyer, R.J. 2004. A new species of the extinct family Lophioneuridae from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 77(2):132-136.
Right: Holotype of Grylloblattida: Protoperlina: Raaschiidae: Raaschia oklahomensis Beckemeyer 2004 as figured in the paper:
Beckemeyer, R.J. 2004. Raaschiidae (Grylloblattida: Protoperlina), a new insect family from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble COunty, Oklahoma. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 77(3):215-221.
The next seven images are new species described in the paper: Bthoux, O. and R. J. Beckemeyer. 2007. New and rare insect species from the Wellington Formation (Orthoptera, Grylloblattodea; Lower Permian, USA). Alavesia. 1: 49-61.
Left Orthoptera: Mezenoedischiinae: Pseudoiasvia sinuosa Bthoux and Beckemeyer 2007. [Photo and drawings courtesy of Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.]
Right: Orthoptera: Crinoedischia butsi Bthoux and Beckemeyer 2007. [Photo and drawings courtesy Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, CT.]
Left: Orthoptera: Crinoedischia noblensis Bthoux and Beckemeyer 2007. [Photo and drawings by Roy J. Beckemeyer.]
Right: Grylloblattodea: Aibolitus minutus Bthoux and Beckemeyer 2007. [Photo and drawings courtesy of Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.]
Left: Grylloblattodea: Elmopterum rotundum Bthoux and Beckemeyer 2007. [Photo and drawings courtesy of Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.]
Right: Grylloblattodea: Liomopteridae: Midcopterum evidens Bthoux and Beckemeyer 2007. [Photo and drawings courtesy of Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.]
Left: Grylloblattodea; Sigmophlebia engeli Bthoux and Beckemeyer 2007. [Photo and drawings by Roy J. Beckemeyer.]
Right: A specimen of Permopanorpa inaequailis Tillyard 1926 from the paper:
Beckemeyer, R. J. and J. D. Hall. 2007. Permopanorpa inaequalis Tillyard, 1926 (Insecta: Holometabola: Panorpida: Permopanorpidae): A fossil mecopteroid newly reported for the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 110(1/2): 23-29.
Left: Coleoptera: Permocoleus wellingtonensis Lubkin & Engel 2005 from the paper:
Beckemeyer, R.J. and M. S. Engel. 2008. A second specimen of Permocoleus (Coleoptera) from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 81(1):4-7.
- Higher order taxonomy of Insecta
- Insect taphonomy (1)
- (Click HERE for definition of "TAPHONOMY")
- Insect taphonomy (2)
- Insect taphonomy (3)
- Insect taphonomy (4)
- Geological time
- Geological maps of Kansas and Oklahoma
- Bibliography
- Other Fossil Insect Web Sites
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