[Rockhounds] New Jurassic water bug from Morrison Formation, Utah
Paul
etchplain at att.net
Mon May 25 04:55:37 PDT 2020
Morrison Formation yields remains of predatory
insect. Utah State Parks Blog, Vernal, Utah
https://stateparks.utah.gov/2020/05/20/famous-dinosaur-producing-rocks-in-utah-yield-fossil-of-large-predatory-insect/
Jurassic bug: Researchers find 151-million-year-old
Morrisonnepa Jurassica insect fossil in Utah
by Jordan Culver, USA TODAY, May 22, 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/21/morrisonnepa-jurassica-151-million-year-old-bug-fossil-utah/5234187002/
the paper is:
Lara, M.B., Foster, J.R., Kirkland, J.I. and Howells,
T.F., 2020. First fossil true water bugs (Heteroptera,
Nepomorpha) from Upper Jurassic strata of North
America (Morrison Formation, southeastern Utah).
Historical Biology, pp.1-9.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08912963.2020.1755283
Yours,
Paul H.
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