New Cretaceous empidoids and the Mesozoic dance fly revolution (Diptera: Empidoidea) [PDF]
Cladistics, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 337-357, August 2023., 2023 Dance flies and relatives (Empidoidea) are a diverse and ecologically important group of Diptera in nearly all modern terrestrial ecosystems. Their fossil record, despite being scattered, attests to a long evolutionary history dating back to the early ...
Badano D. +7 more
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Biodiversity of ecosystems in an arid setting: The late Albian plant communities and associated biota from eastern Iberia. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Deserts are stressful environments where the living beings must acquire different strategies to survive due to the water stress conditions. From the late Albian to the early Cenomanian, the northern and eastern parts of Iberia were the location of the ...
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A new species of the long-legged fly genus Microphorites in Burmese amber (Dolichopodidae: Microphorinae) [PDF]
Cretaceous Research, 2020 International audienceWe describe Microphorites pouilloni sp. nov., as first representative of this Cretaceous–Paleogene genus of Dolichopodidae Microphorinae from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.
Garrouste, Romain +3 more
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A new genus of dance fly (Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotidae) from Cretaceous Spanish ambers and introduction to the fossiliferous amber outcrop of La Hoya (Castellón Province, Spain) [PDF]
, 2023 Hybotidae fly species, also known as dance flies, in Cretaceous ambers have been described from Lebanon, France, Myanmar, Russia, and Canada. Here we describe Grimaldipeza coelica gen. et sp.
Antonio Arillo +3 more
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The oldest representative of the Trichomyiinae (Diptera:Psychodidae) from the Lower Cenomanian French amber studied with phase-contrast synchrotron X-ray imaging [PDF]
, 2008 International audienceTrichomyia lengleti, sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cenomanian amber of La Buzinie, Charente (southwest France) from a piece of fully opaque amber.
Azar, Dany +4 more
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New mantises (Insecta: Mantodea) in Cretaceous ambers from Lebanon, Spain, and Myanmar [PDF]
, 2020 Diverse new material of mantises found in the Cretaceous amber-bearing deposits from Lebanon (Barremian), Spain (Albian), and Myanmar (AlbianeCenomanian) are described and figured.
Arillo, Antonio +6 more
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Palaeobiology of tanaidaceans (Crustacea: Peracarida) from Cretaceous ambers: extending the scarce fossil record of a diverse peracarid group. [PDF]
, 2020 Diverse assemblages of tanaidacean peracarid crustaceans from western Tethyan continental deposits suggest that the group was relatively common in or around ancient resin-producing forests.
Bird, Graham J. +4 more
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Diverzita, systematika a fylogeneze čeledí Opetiidae a Platypezidae (Insecta: Diptera) [PDF]
, 2021 7 CZECH ABSTRACT Tato disertační práce je zaměřena na stlačenkovité čeledi Opetiidae, Platypezidae a na rod Microsania (Insecta: Diptera). Práce obsahuje obecný úvod do systematiky, taxonomie, diverzity, zoogeografie, fylogeneze a biologie ...
Tkoč, Michal
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Upper Cretaceous amber from Vendée, north-western France:Age dating and geological, chemical, and palaeontological characteristics [PDF]
, 2017 International audienceThe Upper Cretaceous lignite deposits of La Garnache, Vendée (western France), consist of two lignitic clay series, Garnache 1 and Garnache 2, separated by a fault.
Batten, David, +10 more
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Straight-jawed lacewing larvae (Neuroptera) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber, with an account on the known amber diversity of neuropterid immatures [PDF]
, 2019 Three larval neuropterans (Insecta: Neuropterida) with straight mandibulomaxillary stylets are described from Lower Cretaceous (late Albian, ~105 Ma) Spanish amber: a third-instar beaded lacewing (Berothidae) from the Peñacerrada I locality (Burgos ...
Delclòs, X +3 more
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