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AN ORIBATID MITE (ARACHNIDA: ACARI) FROM THE OXFORD CLAY (JURASSIC: UPPER CALLOVIAN) OF SOUTH CAVE STATION QUARRY, YORKSHIRE, UK |
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| Authors: | PAUL A SELDEN ANNE S BAKER† and KENNETH J PHIPPS‡ |
| Institution: | The Paleontological Institute, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Boulevard, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA, and Department of Palaeontology, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK;e-mail:; Department of Entomology, the Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK;e-mail:; Department of Geography, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire HU6 7RX, UK |
| Abstract: | Abstract: A single specimen of a new species of oribatid mite belonging to the genus Jureremus Krivolutsky, in Krivolutsky and Krassilov 1977 , previously described from the Upper Jurassic of the Russian Far East, is described as J. phippsi sp. nov. The mite is preserved by iron pyrite replacement, and was recovered by sieving from the Oxford Clay Formation (Jurassic: Upper Callovian) of South Cave, Yorkshire. It is the first record of a pre-Pleistocene mite, and the second species record of the family Cymbaeremaeidae, from the British Isles; also, it is only the third record of Acari from the Jurassic Period. The presence of a terrestrial mite in a sedimentary sequence of open marine origin is noteworthy, and suggestions for its mode of transport to the site of deposition are discussed. |
| Keywords: | Cymbaeremaeidae marine Mesozoic |