Diverse transitional giant fleas from the Mesozoic era of China

Nature

Volumn 483, Issue 7388, 2012, Pages 201-204

  Huang, Diying ^a   Engel, Michael S ^b   Cai, Chenyang ^a   Wu, Hao ^a   Nel, André ^c  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BLOOD; CENOZOIC; ECTOPARASITE; FLY; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; MESOZOIC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEONTOLOGY; REPTILE;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHINA; CLADISTICS; FLEA; FOSSIL; HINDLIMB; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC; MIDDLE JURASSIC; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CHINA; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MAMMALS; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; SIPHONAPTERA;

CHINA;

AVES; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; MECOPTERA; REPTILIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 84862777268     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10839     Document Type: Article

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