Oxytropidoceras Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 Two New Prehistoric Bloodsucking Species Found in Montana, Smithsonian Institute, January 23, 2102, http://blogs.smithso...und-in-montana/ Discovery of new prehistoric mosquitoes reveal these blood-suckers have changed little in 46 million years. Smithsonian Science, Jan. 7, 2013, http://smithsoniansc...-million-years/ Pictures at http://smithsoniansc...2012/12/EM3.jpg and http://smithsoniansc...2012/12/EM2.jpg The paper is: Harbach R. E., and D. Greenwalt, 2012, Two new genera and two new species of fossil Culicidae (Diptera) from Eocene deposits of the Kishenehn Formation in Montana. Zootaxa. no. 3530, pp. 25–34 PDF file with color pictures at http://mapress.com/z...zt03530p034.pdf Best wishes, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgrilusHunter Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) Now that is the kind of new fossil I can get behind! Nice find Oxytropidoceras, and thanks for posting. The level of preservation in those fossils is simply astounding! Edit: There is one error in the first linked article. The author describes fine like hairs on the wings of the mosquitoes. In fact, those are not hairs but scales, kind of like the scales on a butterfly. Edited January 24, 2013 by AgrilusHunter "They ... savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things." -- Terry Pratchett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-dog Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 They have me itching just looking. Bear-dog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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