The earliest known holometabolous insects
The earliest known holometabolous insects
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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London: Nature Publishing Group UK
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Fossils of four insects and one larva from the Carboniferous Pennsylvanian epoch are described; these are very small relative to other known Palaeozoic-era insects, and reveal a previously unknown diversity of early eumetabolan insects, although the lineage radiated more successfully only after the mass extinctions at the end of the Permian period....
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The earliest known holometabolous insects
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TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_01546398v1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_hal_primary_oai_HAL_hal_01546398v1
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0028-0836
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1476-4687
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10.1038/nature12629
