Revision of the Early Cretaceous mydid Cretomydas santanensis (Diptera: Mydidae)

Pouillon, Jean-Marc; Nel, André

doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104604

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“…This includes material currently housed in museum collections which lack detailed field collecting records, and/or which provenance cannot be definitively ascertained with certainty' [254]. This journal, however, notoriously continues to publish numerous fossils of highly questionable origin from regions such as Araripe [255][256][257][258] including 'U. jubatus' [26], finally removed after complaints from other researchers and social media pressure.…”

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Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

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Scientific practices stemming from colonialism, whereby middle- and low-income countries supply data for high-income countries and the contributions of local expertise are devalued, are still prevalent today in the field of palaeontology. In response to these unjust practices, countries such as Mexico and Brazil adopted protective laws and regulations during the twentieth century to preserve their palaeontological heritage. However, scientific colonialism is still reflected in many publications describing fossil specimens recovered from these countries. Here, we present examples of ‘palaeontological colonialism’ from publications on Jurassic–Cretaceous fossils from NE Mexico and NE Brazil spanning the last three decades. Common issues that we identified in these publications are the absence of both fieldwork and export permit declarations and the lack of local experts among authorships. In Mexico, access to many fossil specimens is restricted on account of these specimens being housed in private collections, whereas a high number of studies on Brazilian fossils are based on specimens illegally reposited in foreign collections, particularly in Germany and Japan. Finally, we outline and discuss the wider academic and social impacts of these research practices, and propose exhaustive recommendations to scientists, journals, museums, research institutions and government and funding agencies in order to overcome these practices.

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The first mydid fly (Diptera: Mydidae) from the Paleocene maar of Menat (France)

Nel,

Wedmann

2024

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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Paleomydas menatensis gen. et sp. nov., the third known fossil mydid fly, is described from the Paleocene of Menat (France). The fossil fly is remarkable in its very broad hind femur, a rather infrequent character in this family, which is mainly present in the Neotropical genera Mapinguari and Ceriomydas, and to a less pronounced degree, in the Nearctic genus Phyllomydas. But the lack of information on the antenna and genitalia structures forbids us to specify its relationships within the Mydidae more precisely. Thus we propose to attribute it to a new genus. The systematic affiliation of the late Eocene Mydas miocenicus from Florissant is discussed. Because of the rarity of Diptera in the insect assemblage of the Menat outcrop, the present discovery could suggest that this nowadays rather rare family was more frequent during the Paleocene than today.

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The oldest fossil Stiletto fly: a new genus and species from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Diptera: Therevidae)

Carmo

Lamas

Ribeiro

2022

Cretaceous Research

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Revision of the Early Cretaceous mydid Cretomydas santanensis (Diptera: Mydidae)

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil

The first mydid fly (Diptera: Mydidae) from the Paleocene maar of Menat (France)

The oldest fossil Stiletto fly: a new genus and species from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil (Diptera: Therevidae)

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