Mid-Cretaceous charred fossil flowers reveal direct observation of arthropod feeding strategies

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 295-298

  Hartkopf Fröder, Christoph ^a   Rust, Jes ^b   Wappler, Torsten ^b   Friis, Else Marie ^c   Viehofen, Agnes ^d  

^a Geologischer Dienst Nordrhein Westfalen   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^d NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Fossil flowers; Karst infillings; Mid Cretaceous; Plant arthropod interaction

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; CENOMANIAN; CHARCOAL; DECOMPOSITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERING; FOSSIL RECORD; INFILL; KARST; MITE; MOSQUITO; NECTAR; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POLLEN; PRESERVATION;

GERMANY;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; ORIBATIDA;

EID: 84860318210     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0696     Document Type: Article

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