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New Progress on Fossil Insects in Cretaceous Burmese Amber
Amber, known as “time capsule”, preserving excellent evolutionary fragments of early life in geological history, has become one of the research hotspots in palaeontology. Study on the amber inclusions in China is mainly focused on the Eocene Fushun amber; Since 70's of the last century, many pu... |
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New Progress Made in the Research of Fushun Amber of China
Amber-bearing deposits are among the most important Konservat-Lagerstätten providing unique windows into past ecosystems. Fushun amber has been known for over a century and was traditionally regarded as an important source of medicine as well as organic gemstones. The inclusions, however, were n... |
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Bizarre Parasitic Insects Found from the Jurassic
The reconstruction of ancient insect ectoparasitism is challenging, mostly because of the extreme scarcity of fossils with obvious ectoparasitic features such as sucking-piercing mouthparts and specialized attachment organs. The early evolution of insect ectoparasites and their associations with ... |
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Restudy on the Early Cretaceous flea Tarwinia from Australia
The Australian Lower Cretaceous Koonwarra fossil bed (ca. 118 Ma) has yielded abundant plants, vertebrates and invertebrate fossils, including insects, spiders and branchiopods. The flea, Tarwinia, is one of the most arresting fossils among them.
In 1970, two different fleas, Tarwinia (about ... |
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