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Ovipositor and mouthparts in a fossil insect support a novel ecological role for early orthopterans in 300 million years old forests

A high portion of the earliest known insect fauna is composed of the so-called ‘lobeattid insects’, whose systematic affinities and role as foliage feeders remain debated. We investigated hundreds of samples of a new lobeattid species from the Xiaheyan locality using a combination of photographic te...

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Autores principales: Chen, Lu, Gu, Jun-Jie, Yang, Qiang, Ren, Dong, Blanke, Alexander, Béthoux, Olivier
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8631945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34844668
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71006

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