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Doorenweerd, C.; Nieukerken, E.J. van; Sohn, J.-C.; Labandeira, C.C.. |
With phylogenetic knowledge of Lepidoptera rapidly increasing, catalysed by increasingly powerful molecular techniques, the demand for fossil calibration points to estimate an evolutionary timeframe for the order is becoming an increasingly pressing issue. The family Nepticulidae is a species rich, basal branch within the phylogeny of the Lepidoptera, characterized by larval leaf-mining habits, and thereby represents a potentially important lineage whose evolutionary history can be established more thoroughly with the potential use of fossil calibration points. Using our experience with extant global Nepticulidae, we discuss a list of characters that may be used to assign fossil leaf mines to Nepticulidae, and suggest useful methods for classifying... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Baltic amber; Calibration points; Dakota formation; Evolutionary history; Extinction; Fossil record; Larvae; Leaf mining; Plant hosts; Stigmella; Stigmellites. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/648751 |
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Hoek Ostende, L.W. van den; Doukas, C.S.. |
The distribution of the Early Miocene galericine Galerix symeonidisi, with records from Greece, Germany, Spain and Austria is discussed. The identification of G. cf. symeonidisi from the Anatolian Çankiri basin is changed into G. cf. uenayae on the basis of additional material. Galerix symeonidisi enters Europe at the MN 3/ MN 4 transition. Differences in the pattern of replacement of the preceding Galerix species in Germany and Spain suggest that ecological factors played a role in that replacement. Galerix symeonidisi is succeeded by G. exilis in Western and Central Europe. A G. symeonidisi - G. exilis lineage, as has been proposed in literature, is rejected. The record from the Daroca-Calamocha area (Spain) is instead interpreted as a case of gradual... |
Tipo: Article / Letter to the editor |
Palavras-chave: Evolutionary history; Galerix; Miocene; 38.22; 42.84. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/327789 |
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