Mysterious Insect Fossil Gap Explained

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Mysterious Insect Fossil Gap Explained

A lack of diverse, winged hexapods—

not low oxygen levels—

could explain the gap in the fossil record

By Lucas Joel, Smithsonian Magazine, May 1, 2018

 

Open access papers that mentions the hexapod gap ar:

 

Engel, M.S., 2015. Insect evolution. Current Biology, 25(19), pp.R868-R872

 

Schachat, S.R., Labandeira, C.C., Saltzman, M.R., Cramer,

B.D., Payne, J.L. and Boyce, C.K., 2018. Phanerozoic p O2

and the early evolution of terrestrial animals. Proceedings

of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1871), no. 20172631.

 

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited September 29, 2022 by Oxytropidoceras
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