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A review of the Carboniferous fossil insects from Scotland
The known fossil insects of Carboniferous age from Scotland are reviewed. Of the seven recorded, one record is highly dubious and rejected, and another is herein identified as a crustacean. The remaining five insects belong to three orders: The extinct order Protodonata (giant dragonflies) is represented by the holotype of...Ross, Andrew
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Book
Fossils
Explore the extraordinary world of fossils; find out how they’re formed, where to find them and how to identify them in this information book. Written by palaeontology expert Dr Andrew Ross, in conjunction with the National Museum of Scotland, this book will help children discover all the fascinating details of...Ross, Andrew
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Tomographic reconstruction of neopterous Carboniferous insect nymphs
Two new polyneopteran insect nymphs from the Montceau-les-Mines Lagerstätte of France are presented. Both are preserved in three dimensions, and are imaged with the aid of X-ray micro-tomography, allowing their morphology to be recovered in unprecedented detail. One–Anebos phrixos gen. et sp. nov.–is of uncertain affinities, and preserves portions of...Garwood, R ; Ross, Andrew ; Sotty, D ; Chabard, D ; Charbonnier, S …
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Book chapter
What is amber?
How Is Amber Produced?; Amber Inclusions; Evidence of Animal Behavior; Animal Products; Preservationl Inorganic Inclusionsl Animal Interactions; Parasitism; Mutualism; Commensalism; Predation; Plant Inclusions; Gymnosperms; Angiosperms; The Ancient Amber Forests; The Search for DNA; Reports of DNA in Amber; Is Jurassic Park Possible?Ross, Andrew
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Testing decreasing variabililty of cockroach forewings through time using four recent species: Blattella germanica, Polyphaga aegyptiaca, Shelfordella lateralis and Blaberus craniifer, with implications for the study of fossil cockroach forewings
Vršanský (2000) considered there is decreasing variability in the forewings of cockroaches through time, based on a study of fossil and Recent species. This study tests his theory, based on a study of four Recent species of cockroaches: Blattella germanica (Blattellidae), Polyphaga aegyptiaca (Polyphagidae), Shelfordella lateralis (Blattidae) and Blaberus craniifer...Ross, Andrew
Blattidae, Polyphagidae, Blaberidae, cockroach, variation, and Blattellidae
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Juvenile snail with preserved soft tissue in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar suggests a cyclophoroidean (Gastropoda) ancestry
Gastropods are generally rare in amber. In this paper we describe an example of exceptional soft-bodied preservation in a fossil terrestrial mollusk-a snail shell with some tissue, including part of the cephalic region (head) with a tentacle and inferred eye stalk, and potentially part of the foot and operculum. The...Xing, Lida ; Ross, Andrew ; Stilwell, Jeffrey D ; Fang, Jun ; McKellar, Ryan C
Cenomanian, Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cretaceous, Burmite, Soft-part preservation, Gastropoda, and Cyclophoroidea
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New taxa of Tarachoptera from Burmese amber (Insecta, Amphiesmenoptera)
Retortocelis gen. nov. (Insecta, Tarachoptera) is established to accommodate three species from Cretaceous Burmese amber. The species are described as R. longella sp. nov., R. minimella sp. nov. and R. tyloptera sp. nov. The new genus is characterized by the presence of a costal fold on the forewings of the...Mey, W ; Wichard, Wilfried ; Müller, P ; Ross, Emma ; Ross, Andrew
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A review of Necrotauliids from the Triassic/Jurassic of England (Trichoptera: Necrotauliidae)
Species previously attributed to Necrotauliidae are revised from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of England based on examination of type specimens and non-type material. The necrotauliids have been considered as a basal family of caddisflies (Trichoptera) or as a paraphyletic assemblage of stem-amphiesmenopterans. Herein a new genus, Austaulius, is...Kelly, Richard S ; Ross, Andrew ; Coram, Robert A
palaeoentomology, taxonomy/systematics, Polyneoptera, palaeobiogeography, and Archidermaptera