Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps: Fossil evidence from amber

Spider wasps had long been proposed to originate in the mid-Cretaceous based on the Burmese amber fossil Bryopompilus interfector Engel and Grimaldi, 2006. We performed a morphological examination of this fossil and determined it does not belong to Pompilidae or any other described hymenopteran fa...

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Main Authors: Juanita Rodriguez, Cecilia Waichert, Carol D. Von Dohlen, George Poinar Jr, James P. Pitts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Paleobiology PAS 2016-02-01
Series:Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
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Online Access:http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app61/app000732014.pdf