Amber specimens reveal origin of long mouthpart of scorpionflies
Wednesday, March 4, 2020 - 14:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An international research group led by Prof. Wang Bo from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has found a new genus, including two new aneuretopsychid species from early Late Cretaceous (99 million years ago) Burmese amber, which reveals new anatomically significant details of the elongate mouthpart elements.