Diverse transitional giant fleas from the Mesozoic era of China

Diying Huang (), Michael S. Engel, Chenyang Cai, Hao Wu and André Nel ()
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Diying Huang: State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
Michael S. Engel: Natural History Museum, University of Kansas
Chenyang Cai: State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
Hao Wu: State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology
André Nel: CNRS UMR 7205, CP 50, Entomologie, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris F-75005, France

Nature, 2012, vol. 483, issue 7388, 201-204

Abstract: The morphology of the oldest definitive fleas—from the Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods of China—suggests that they had ‘reptilian’ hosts before radiating to mammalian and avian hosts, and their stout and elongate sucking siphons suggest that they may be rooted among the scorpionflies of the Mesozoic era.

Date: 2012
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