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Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U–Pb dating of zircons
- G. Shi, D. Grimaldi, +6 authors X. Li
- Geology
- 1 October 2012
Amber from northern Myanmar has been commercially exploited for millennia, and it also preserves the most diverse palaeobiota among the worlds' seven major deposits of Cretaceous amber. Recent… Expand
Evolution of the insects
- D. Grimaldi, M. Engel
- Biology
- 1 May 2005
Section 1. Diversity and Evolution: Introduction Species: their nature and number How many species of insects? Reconstructing evolutionary history Section 2. Fossil Insects: Insect fossilization… Expand
Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life
- B. Wiegmann, Michelle Trautwein, +24 authors D. Yeates
- Biology, Medicine
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 14 March 2011
Flies are one of four superradiations of insects (along with beetles, wasps, and moths) that account for the majority of animal life on Earth. Diptera includes species known for their ubiquity (Musca… Expand
Fossiliferous Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma): Its Rediscovery, Biotic Diversity, and Paleontological Significance
- D. Grimaldi, M. Engel, Paul C. Nascimbene
- Biology
- 1 March 2002
Abstract Amber from Kachin, northern Burma, has been used in China for at least a millennium for carving decorative objects, but the only scientific collection of inclusion fossils, at the Natural… Expand
A phylogenetic, revised classification of genera in the Drosophilidae (Diptera). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 197
- D. Grimaldi
- Biology
- 1990
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The Co-Radiations of Pollinating Insects and Angiosperms in the Cretaceous
- D. Grimaldi
- Biology
- 21 January 1999
Treatise on the Isoptera of the World
- K. Krishna, D. Grimaldi, Valerie Krishna, M. Engel
- Biology
- 14 June 2013
ABSTRACT A comprehensive compendium on the taxonomy and biology of the 3106 living and fossil species of the worlds termites is presented, along with reviews of Isoptera morphology and evolution,… Expand
A Revision of Cretaceous Mantises and Their Relationships, Including New Taxa (Insecta: Dictyoptera: Mantodea)
- D. Grimaldi
- Biology
- 1 July 2003
Abstract All genera of Cretaceous mantises are reviewed, and diagnoses of some are revised based on re-examination of type specimens. Five new Mantodea are described from Cretaceous deposits on four… Expand
Termites (Isoptera): Their Phylogeny, Classification, and Rise to Ecological Dominance
- M. Engel, D. Grimaldi, K. Krishna
- Biology
- 29 June 2009
Abstract Like ants, termites are entirely eusocial and have profound ecological significance in the tropics. Following upon recent studies reporting more than a quarter of all known fossil termites,… Expand
A formicine in New Jersey cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: formicidae) and early evolution of the ants.
- D. Grimaldi, D. Agosti
- Medicine, Biology
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
- 5 December 2000
A worker ant preserved with microscopic detail has been discovered in Turonian-aged New Jersey amber [ca. 92 mega-annum (Ma)]. The apex of the gaster has an acidopore and, thus, allows definitive… Expand
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