Systematics of Mesozoic ‘Arctic’ polar cockroaches

• DOI: 10.1007/s11756-024-01814-2
• Publication Date: 2024-12-06T15:00:43Z
• Authors: Peter V. V. Vršanský; Zuzana Kováčová; Dmitrij V. Vasilenko; Helena Pálková; Štefan Nagy; Daniel Kosnáč; Ľubomír Vidlička; Sarah K. Martin
• Keywords: 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences

Abstract This is an exclusively systematic background study reviewing 85 Mesozoic (latest Jurassic and Cretaceous) cockroaches praying mantises from northern palaeo-polar (i.e. deposited within polar circles) deposits in Yakutia, Taimyr, Khabarovsk, Magadan Chukotka (Russia), revealing 15 new species, which are herein characterised using two-way analysis. The taphonomic conditions these ‘Arctic’ paleo- sites were strongly influenced by long periods of pre-depositional transport.