New fossils (Isoptera: Hodotermitidae), from the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, Northeast Brazil), with descriptions of new taxa including a new subfamily

Sociobiology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 125-134

  Martins Neto, Rafael Gioia ^a,b   Ribeiro Jr , Cleber ^c   Prezoto, Fábio ^a  

^a Programa de Pós Graduação em Ciências Biológicas   (Brazil)

^b Sociedade Brasileira de Paleoartropodologia SBPr ^*  (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fossil Isoptera; Lower Cretaceous; Santana Formation

Indexed keywords

HODOTERMITIDAE; ISOPTERA;

EID: 31344479068     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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