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False Blister Beetles and the Expansion of Gymnosperm-Insect Pollination Modes before Angiosperm Dominance. [PDF]

, 2020
During the mid-Cretaceous, angiosperms diversified from several nondiverse lineages to their current global domination [1], replacing earlier gymnosperm lineages [2].Several hypotheses explain this extensive radiation [3], one of which involves ...
Barrón, Eduardo, Delclòs Martínez, Xavier, Labandeira, C.C., Peris Cerdán, David, Peñalver Mollá, Enrique, Pérez de la Fuente, Ricardo   +5 more
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A new genus of lance lacewings from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020
Fossils of Osmylinae are rare, currently only one fossil genus of this subfamily is known, Lithosmylus which is recorded from the late Eocene Florissant Formation of USA. Herein, we report a new Osmylinae genus with two new species, Vetosmylus tentus gen.
Yiming Ma, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren, Yongjie Wang   +3 more
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Two new Jurassic species of Tipuloidea (Insecta: Diptera) from Daohugou Village, China

Palaeoentomology
Two new species of Tipuloidea, Tipunia ningchengensis sp. nov. and Praearchitipula procera sp. nov. are described and illustrated from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation at Daohugou Village, Inner Mongolia, China. The new species T. ningchengensis sp. nov.
CHU-PING WANG, Yunquan Liu
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Plant-dominated assemblage and invertebrates from the lower Cenomanian of Jaunay-Clan, western France [PDF]

, 2014
International audienceTwo fossil localities are reported on the "LGV SEA" railroad from the Lower Cenomanianof Jaunay-Clan (JC), near Poitiers, western France.
Charbonnier, Sylvain, Daviero-Gomez, Véronique, Ferchaud, Patrice, Garcia, Géraldine, Gomez, Bernard, Kirejtshuk, Alexander, Licht, Alexis, Néraudeau, Didier, Valentin, Xavier, Vullo, Romain   +9 more
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Cranial biomechanics in basal urodeles: the Siberian salamander (Salamandrella keyserlingii) and its evolutionary and developmental implications [PDF]

, 2017
Developmental changes in salamander skulls, before and after metamorphosis, afect the feeding capabilities of these animals. How changes in cranial morphology and tissue properties afect the function of the skull are key to decipher the early ...
AB Vassilieva, C Sullivan, CW Walmsley, D Cundall, DB Wake, DS Strait, E Heiss, EJ Rayfield, ER Dumont, ER Dumont, F Ahmadzadeh, G Zhang, J Ehmcke, J Fortuny, J Fortuny, J Fortuny, J Jia, J Jia, J Marcé-Nogué, J Marcé-Nogué, JD Currey, JM Neenan, JRL Elwood, K-Q Gao, K-Q Gao, K-Q Gao, K-Q Gao, L Gil, M Hasumi, MJ Markey, N Jömann, NA Poyarkov, PL Mente, R Carroll, RA Pyron, RL Carroll, RR Schoch, RR Schoch, S Lautenschlager, SE Evans, TH Eaton, Y Wang, Y Wang, Y Wang   +43 more
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A exceptionally-preserved new species of Barchaboilus (Orthoptera: Prophalangopsidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, China

Zootaxa, 2011
A new species of Prophalangopsidae, Bacharboilus lii sp. nov., is described. It was collected from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Daohugou Village, Ningcheng County, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, China. This exquisitely preserved specimen exhibits clear wing venation and head structures, especially the mouthpart morphology.
Junjie Gu, Gexia Qiao, Dong Ren
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Two new species of Sinosmylites Hong (Neuroptera, Berothidae) from the Middle Jurassic of China, with notes on Mesoberothidae

ZooKeys, 2011
Two new species of the genus Sinosmylites Hong are described from the Middle Jurassic locality at Daohugou (Inner Mongolia, China): S. fumosus sp. n. and S. rasnitsyni sp. n. This is the oldest known occurrence of the family Berothidae.
Vladimir Makarkin, Qiang Yang, Dong Ren
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Redescription of Litholingia rhora Ren, 2002 (Neuroptera: Grammolingiidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou

Palaeoentomology, 2022
A new specimen of the species Litholingia rhora Ren, 2002, from the Middle-Upper Jurassic deposit of Daohugou, is used to redescribe the species and precise its diagnosis. We also propose a series of wing venation drawings highlighting the main characteristics of the wing venation all Litholingia species.
Jouault, Corentin, Legendre, Frédéric, Perrichot, Vincent, Condamine, Fabien, Nel, André   +4 more
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A remarkable new family of Jurassic insects (Neuroptera) with primitive wing venation and its phylogenetic position in Neuropterida. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundLacewings (insect order Neuroptera), known in the fossil record since the Early Permian, were most diverse in the Mesozoic. A dramatic variety of forms ranged in that time from large butterfly-like Kalligrammatidae to minute two-winged ...
Qiang Yang, Vladimir N Makarkin, Shaun L Winterton, Alexander V Khramov, Dong Ren   +4 more
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A new Jurassic lizard from China [PDF]

, 2019
The Jurassic record of lizards in eastern Asia is poor by comparison with that of the Cretaceous. In China, to date, the only confirmed records from this period are an armoured lizard from Shishugou, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, of probable ...
Dong, L, Evans, SE, Mou, L, Wang, Y, Zhang, G   +4 more
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