Arthropods in amber from the Triassic Period

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

Volumn 109, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 14796-14801

  Schmidt, Alexander R ^a   Jancke, Saskia ^b   Lindquist, Evert E ^c   Ragazzi, Eugenio ^d   Roghi, Guido ^e   Nascimbene, Paul C ^f   Schmidt, Kerstin ^g   Wappler, Torsten ^h   Grimaldif, David A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^c Arachnids and Nematodes   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^g FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acari; Carnian pluvial event; Cheirolepidiaceae; Phytophagy

Indexed keywords

AMBER;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CARNIAN; CRETACEOUS; FLY; FOSSIL; ITALY; MITE; NONHUMAN; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIASSIC;

AMBER; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FOSSILS; ITALY; MITES; PALEONTOLOGY;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; CHEIROLEPIDIACEAE; CONIFEROPHYTA; DIPTERA; ERIOPHYOIDEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84866296532     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208464109     Document Type: Article

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