Late Carboniferous paleoichnology reveals the oldest full-body impression of a flying insect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 6515-6519

  Knecht, Richard J ^a   Engel, Michael S ^b   Bennera, Jacob S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Ephemeroptera; Ethology; Ichnology; Pennsylvanian

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBONIFEROUS; CELL LINEAGE; ETHOLOGY; FLY; FOSSIL; INSECT; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; INSECTS; PALEONTOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955628160     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015948108     Document Type: Article

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