New pollen morphotype from gut compression of a Cretaceous insect, and its bearing on palynomorphological evolution and palaeoecology

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 149-156

  Krassilov, Valentin ^a,b   Tekleva, Masha ^a   Meyer Melikyan, Nona ^c   Rasnitsyn, Alexander ^a  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; Palynomorphology; Plant palaeoecology; Plant insect co evolution; Proangiosperms

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLEN;

CEROXYELA DOLICHOCERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; VITIMIPOLLIS EDULIS;

EID: 0042856311     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00029-6     Document Type: Article

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