A remarkable assemblage of ticks from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Four fossil ticks (Arachnida: Parasitiformes: Ixodida) are described from mid-Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma) Burmese amber of Myanmar. Ixodes antiquorum sp. nov. (Ixodidae) is the first Mesozoic record of Ixodes and the oldest representative of the most species-rich extant tick genus. Its affinities appear...

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Autores principales: Chitimia-Dobler, Lidia, Mans, Ben J., Handschuh, Stephan, Dunlop, Jason A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10090602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35241194
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182022000269

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10090602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35241194
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182022000269

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