A fossil bee from early cretaceous burmese amber

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5799, 2006, Pages 614-

  Poinar Jr , G O ^a   Danforth, B N ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLANTS (BOTANY); RESINS;

ANGIOSPERMS; CRETACEOUS BURMESE AMBER; FOSSIL BEES; RAPID DIVERSIFICATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

AMBER;

AMBER; ANGIOSPERM; BEE; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; POLLEN;

ARTICLE; BEE; FOSSIL; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MELLITOSPHEX BURMENSIS; MYANMAR; NONHUMAN; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMBER; ANIMALS; BEES; FOSSILS; MALE; MYANMAR; POLLEN; WING;

APOIDEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 33750456580     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1134103     Document Type: Article

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7. We thank M. Prentice and M. Burgett for discussions and A. Boucot, R. Poinar, E. Almeida, S. Cardinal, C. Michener, and J. Liebherr for comments. This project was partially supported by an NSF Research Grant in Systematic Biology to B.N.D. (DEB-0412176). F. Fawcett prepared the illustrations.