A new mesoserphid wasp from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea)
European Journal of Taxonomy, 2017 A new genus and species of Mesoserphidae (Hymenoptera), Juraserphus modicus gen. et sp. nov., is described based on a well-preserved fossil specimen from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of northeastern China.
Yan Zheng, Jun Chen
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The earliest fossil record of Panorpidae (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of China
ZooKeys, 2014 The early history of Panorpidae (Mecoptera) is poorly known due to sparse fossil records. Up to date, only nine fossil species have been described, all from the Paleogene, except the Early Cretaceous Solusipanorpa gibbidorsa Lin, 1980.
He Ding +4 more
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Diversity of feeding and pollination strategies of Mesozoic beetles [PDF]
, 2020 Beetles (Order: Coleoptera) as the most diverse and successful animals on the earth, comprise about 400,000 species, constituting almost 40% of described insects and a quarter of all animal species.
Bao, Tong
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A Jurassic acanthocephalan illuminates the origin of thorny-headed worms [PDF]
Acanthocephala (thorny-headed worms), characterized by the presence of an eversible proboscis with hooks, are a diverse endoparasitic group that infect a wide range of vertebrates and invertebrates1. Although long regarded as a separate phylum, they have
Boudinot, Brendon E +6 more
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Praeornis sharovi Rautian, 1978 a fossil feather from the early Late Jurassic of Kazakhstan [PDF]
, 2017 Since its original description as a feather belonging to a basal bird, the phylogenetic position of Praeornis sharovi was debated. It was considered as belonging to a bird, a cycad leaf, or as a ‘transitional’ integumentary structure between reptile ...
Agnolín, Federico L. +2 more
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Excavating the fossil record for evidence of leaf mining
New Phytologist, Volume 242, Issue 6, Page 2391-2393, June 2024.
Stephen McLoughlin, Artai A. Santos
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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and biostratinomic analysis of the Jurassic Yanliao Lagerstätte in northeastern China [PDF]
, 2018 The Middle-Upper Jurassic Yanliao Lagerstätte contains numerous exceptionally preserved fossils of aquatic and land organisms, including insects, salamanders, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and mammaliaforms.
Benton, Michael J. +8 more
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Noninvasive elemental XRF characterization of mudstone lagerstätten for provenance identification: Advantages and limitations [PDF]
The objective of this study is to explore the utility of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) techniques in identifying the geochemical signature of various classical fossil sites within museum collections.
Cruset, David +8 more
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New earwigs in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Dermaptera, Neodermaptera) [PDF]
, 2014 This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.pensoft.net.Two new earwigs (Dermaptera) recently discovered in mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian) amber from Myanmar are described and figured.
Engel, Michael S.
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