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 | Note: This historical image is not a factually accurate paleontological restoration. Reason: Misinterpreted mouthpart and ecology, it is nymphal scale insect and did not fed on feather.[1] |
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English: Holotype and paratypes of Mesophthirus engeli Gao, Shih, Rasnitsyn & Ren within the Burmese amber specimen AMBER No. 01. i Artist’s reconstruction of M. engeli of elder development stage feeding on the feather. It was reconstructed mainly based on the morphological characters of the holotype CNU-MA2016009, with supplemental consideration of CNU-MA2016001 and CNU-MA2016003. Colors of the insects are conjectural and referring to the general color of living feather-feeding lice. Scale bar 50 μm. |
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| Source | Gao, T.; Yin, X.; Shih, C.; Rasnitsyn, A. P.; Xu, X.; Chen, S.; Wang, C.; & Ren, D. (2019). "New insects feeding on dinosaur feathers in mid-Cretaceous amber". Nature Communications 10 (1): Article number 5424. DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-13516-4. PMID 31822675. PMC: 6904634. |
| Author | Gao et al 2019 |
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