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, 1928 This black and white photograph features sixteen slabs of various fossil insects.
Sternberg, George Fryer, 1883-1969
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Geological Journal, EarlyView.This study reports the exceptional preservation of the Eocene freshwater bivalve Batissa sitakaraensis from Hokkaido, Japan. Multimodal analyses reveal that both the aragonitic shell mineralogy and the delicate organic periostracum retain their original structural and chemical characteristics after millions of years.
Taro Yoshimura +4 more
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Descriptions of fossil insects
, 1917 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
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Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Termites are landscape geo‐engineers whose nesting activities substantially modify the physical and chemical properties of soils. Fossilised termite nests commonly constitute the only identifiable evidence of ancient termite activity and represent valuable trace fossil archives for reconstructing past environments.
Miengah Abrahams +7 more
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Studying goose domestication through archaeological finds has been challenging due to the similar skeletal morphology of the European domestic goose and its wild progenitor, the greylag goose (Anser anser). We analyzed stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopes from bone collagen of subfossil domestic and potentially domestic geese to ...
Johanna Honka +7 more
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Swiss Journal of PalaeontologyThe Triassic is considered a crucial period for the establishment of the modern insect fauna and fossil records from this period are fundamental for understanding the real impact that the end Permian Mass Extinction events had on these animals.
Matteo Montagna +2 more
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New Miocene limoniid craneflies from Dominican amber and their evolutionary importance
Acta Palaeontologica PolonicaThis paper describes three new species belonging to the genus Styringomyia, based on specimens preserved in Early Miocene (Burdigalian) Dominican amber: Styringomyia caridadi sp. nov., S. caribeana sp. nov., and S. grimaldii sp. nov.
Katarzyna Kopeć +4 more
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Scale insects in amber with phylogeny for fossil Coccoidea.
, 2015 80 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.Coccoids are abundant and diverse in most amber deposits around the world, but largely as macropterous males.
Grimaldi, David A., Vea, Isabelle M.
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