Palaeontology: the 165-million-year itch

George O Poinar Jr

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.014

Palaeontology: the 165-million-year itch

Curr Biol. 2012 Apr 24;22(8):R278-80. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.014.

Author

George O Poinar Jr¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. poinarg@science.oregonstate.edu

PMID: 22537632
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.014

Abstract

New flea-like fossils from China provide a rare, tantalizing glimpse of bizarre insects in the Cretaceous and Jurassic. Possibly the oldest flea-like animals known, they provide a challenge to the functional morphologist to infer which animals they may have targeted.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Fossils*
Host-Parasite Interactions*
Insecta / anatomy & histology*
Insecta / classification*
Vertebrates / parasitology*