Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers...
Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?”
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Gao, T. P. , Yin, X. Ch , Shih, Ch. K. , Rasnitsyn, A. P. , Emeljanov, A. F. , Xu, X. , Chen, Sh , Wang, Ch and Ren, D.
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Moscow: Pleiades Publishing
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Moscow: Pleiades Publishing
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We described ten nymph specimens of an insect,
Mesophthirus engeli
(incertae sedis), from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber, preserved together with partially damaged dinosaur feathers. Based on the ectoparasitic morphological characters of these tiny insect nymphs, we concluded that
Mesophthirus engeli
was the earliest known f...
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Reply to: “Insects with 100 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Feathers are not Ectoparasites” and “Crawlers of the Scale Insect Mesophthirus (Homoptera Xylococcidae) on Feathers in Burmese Amber—Wind Transport or Phoresy on Dinosaurs?”
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2676121319
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2676121319
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0031-0301
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1555-6174
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10.1134/S0031030122030054
