Early cretaceous spider web with its prey

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5781, 2006, Pages 1761-

  Peñalver, Enrique ^a   Grimaldi, David A ^a   Delclòs, Xavier ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS;

AMBER DOCUMENTS; ENTRAPPED WASPS; SPIDER WEBS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

BEETLE; CRETACEOUS; EVOLUTION; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB; WASP;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; COLEOPTERA; ELASTICITY; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MITE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILK; SPIDER;

AMBER; ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; INSECTS; MITES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SILK; SPIDERS;

ARANEAE; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 33745489237     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126628     Document Type: Article

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7. We thank C. Soriano, M. Engel, A. Melic, J. I. Ruiz Omeñaca, and M. Marco for providing information. We also thank Diputadon General de Aragón and L Alcalá of the Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinopólis. Research was sponsored with Spanish-French Scientific Research Program no. HF2004-0053 and grant no. CGL2005-00046, both from Research Projects of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science.