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The Mantophasmatodea is the most recently discovered insect order. The fossil records of all other ‘polyneopteran’ orders extend far in the past, but the current absence of pre-Cenozoic fossils of the Mantophasmatodea contradicts a long evolutionary history, which has to be assumed from the morphological distinctness of the group. In this paper, we report the first Mesozoic evidence of a mantophasmatodean from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Furthermore, the new fossil shares apomorphic characters with Cenozoic and recent Mantophasmatodea, suggesting a longer evolutionary history of this order.
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We thank Dr. P. Grandcolas and Prof. N. P. Kristensen for their helpful criticisms and comments. H.D.Y. is pleased to acknowledge this project supported by the NSFC (grants no. 40672013 and 40632010), the Major Basic Research Projects of MST of China (2006CB806400), the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nigpas, no. 073101), and the MNHN, Paris, for a grant as invited Maître de Conférence. We sincerely thank Dr. Gerald Mayr, Dr. Karl Kjer, and two anonymous referees for the useful comments on the first version of this paper.
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Huang, Dy., Nel, A., Zompro, O. et al. Mantophasmatodea now in the Jurassic. Naturwissenschaften 95, 947–952 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-008-0412-x
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