A new titanopteran <i>Magnatitan jongheoni</i> n. gen. n. sp. from southwestern Korean Peninsula

Abstract Titanopterans are spectacular, giant, predatory insects mainly known from the Triassic, but they a few localities in Central Asia (including European Russia) and Australia. The Nampo Group is nonmarine sequence, located on southwestern Korean Peninsula, age of which has remained controversial, due to lack proper age-constraining fossils. Here, we report new titanopteran Magnatitan jongheoni n. gen. sp. Amisan Formation, Group. division radius anterior posterior beyond distal half fossil wing characteristic family Paratitanidae. This first discovery outside Australia, suggesting possible circum-Tethys oceanic distribution. Given possibly widespread distribution titanopterans, this group might have played critical role as giant Triassic terrestrial ecology. Because titanopterans never been found Triassic-Jurassic boundary, occurrence corroborates UUID: http://zoobank.org/10177029-0044-424f-9816-e3fb057cfe85