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¹Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Chinese Academia of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008 People's Republic of China. huangdiying@sina.com

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The newly discovered Middle Jurassic fossil provides the first Mesozoic evidence for Mantophasmatodea, an insect order. This finding suggests a longer evolutionary history for this group than previously known.

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Area of Science:

Paleontology
Entomology
Evolutionary Biology

Background:

Mantophasmatodea is the most recently identified insect order.
Fossil records for other Polyneopteran orders date back to the distant past.
The lack of pre-Cenozoic Mantophasmatodea fossils suggested a shorter evolutionary history, despite morphological distinctness.

Purpose of the Study:

To report the first Mesozoic fossil evidence of the insect order Mantophasmatodea.
To investigate the evolutionary history of Mantophasmatodea using fossil evidence.

Main Methods:

Fossil discovery and analysis.
Comparative morphological analysis with extant and Cenozoic Mantophasmatodea.

Main Results:

The first Mesozoic fossil of Mantophasmatodea was discovered in the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China.
The fossil exhibits apomorphic characters shared with Cenozoic and recent Mantophasmatodea.

Conclusions:

The discovery of Mesozoic Mantophasmatodea supports a longer evolutionary history for this insect order.
This finding challenges previous assumptions about the group's evolutionary timeline based on fossil records.