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PART I: Traumas on Fossil Leaves from the Cretaceous of Israel; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Material and methods; Stratigraphic overview of Cretaceous fossil plant/insect localities in Israel and adjacent countries; Plant communities; Taphonomy of phyllostigmas; Functional morphology of phyllostigmas; Morphological classification of phyllostigmas; Diversity of Cretaceous phyllostigmatc structures; Host plant -- arthropod interactions; Environmental variables; Systematic description of phyllostigmas; References; Plates |
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PART II: Fossil Insects in the Cretaceous Mangrove Facies of Southern Negev, IsraelIntroduction; Systematic description; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Plates; INDEX |
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Paleontologists just recently opened their eyes to the wealth of fossil documents relevant to plant - arthropod interaction and are busy now accumulating raw data. Perhaps the richest regional collection of interaction traces came from the mid-Cretaceous deposits of the Negev Desert, Israel, encompassing the time interval of the rise and basal radiation of angiosperms - the flowering plants. The arthropods (insects and mites) inserting their eggs in the leaves and making leaf mines and galls were discovering new possibilities for endophytic life that the flowering plants provided. Their morpho |
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Angiosperms, Fossil -- Israel -- Negev
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Arthropoda, Fossil -- Israel -- Negev
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Insect-plant relationships -- Israel -- Negev
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Insects, Fossil -- Israel -- Negev
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Paleontology -- Cretaceous.
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Paleontology -- Israel -- Negev
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Angiosperms, Fossil
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Arthropoda, Fossil
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Cretaceous Geologic Period
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Insect-plant relationships
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Insects, Fossil
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Paleontology
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Geology.
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Earth & Environmental Sciences.
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Paleozoology.
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Paleobotany.
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Israel -- Negev
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Electronic book
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Author |
Rasnitsyn, Alexandr
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ISBN |
9789047424024 |
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9047424026 |
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