...Yan Fang; A.D. Muscente; Sam W. Heads; Bo Wang; Shuhai Xiao Abstract A new genus and species of the Elcanidae (Orthoptera, Elcanoidea), Cascadelcana virginiana n. gen. n. sp., is described based on a forewing specimen from the Upper Triassic (Norian) Cow Branch Formation in the Solite Quarry...

... , 1971 ) and Storozhenko (1997) to be ancestral to the remaining taxa of the suborder Caelifera. The new data tests the alternative hypothesis proposed by Béthoux and Nel (2002) , who considered the Caelifera as a sister group related to the Elcanidae Handlirsch, 1906 on the basis...

... as a member of Trigonidiinae (Trigonidiidae) and long-listed in the Gryllidae s. str. (Cigliano et al. 2021 ), is actually not a cricket but belongs to the Elcanidae (Desutter-Grandcolas et al. 2021 ; Cigliano et al. 2022 a , b ). The Cretaceous Gryllidium oweni Westwood, 1854, originally considered...

... not an issue with preservational bias, but more likely caused by some paleoecological factor. Given that other phytophagous taxa such as Elcanidae (Orthoptera) are well-represented in the Solite material, perhaps the littoral vegetation surrounding ancient ‘Lake Solite’ consisted of plants less conducive...

.../2011/0594, length 6.5 mm. ( b ) Beetle (Coleoptera), TTNCM 39/2011/0640, length 12 mm. ( c ) Partial dragonfly forewing (Odonata: Liassogomphidae), TTNCM 39/2011/0509, preserved length 26 mm. ( d ) Grasshopper forewing (Orthoptera: Elcanidae), TTNCM 39/2011/0523, width 3.5 mm. ( e ) Paired bug...

... . Can. J. Earth Sci. 30 : 2101 – 2106 . Fang , Y. ; Heads , S. W. ; Wang , H. ; Zhang , H. ; and Wang , B. 2018 . The first Archelcaninae (Orthoptera, Elcanidae) from the Cretaceous Jehol Biota of Liaoning, China . Cretac. Res. 86 : 129 – 134 . https://doi.org/10.1016...