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- Title
Megeremaeus cretaceous new species (Acari: Oribatida), the first oribatid mite from Canadian amber.
- Authors
Sidorchuk, Ekaterina A.; Behan-Pelletier, Valerie M.
- Abstract
Canadian Cretaceous amber belongs to the Taber Coal Zone, and was deposited in beds of coal and shale saturated with organic matter. It is upper Campanian (~76–72 million years ago), and the source of the original resin is predominantly the plant genus Parataxodium Arnold and Lowther (Cupressaceae). We describe the first oribatid mite from this amber, Megeremaeus cretaceousnew species (Acari: Oribatida: Megeremaeidae). We provide a key to all described species of Megeremaeus Higgins and Woolley, 1965, and discuss the advantages that confocal microscopy provides for the study of dark, resin-filled, miniature amber inclusions.
- Subjects
ORIBATIDAE; AMBER; ORGANIC compounds; ANIMAL species; CONFOCAL microscopy
- Publication
Canadian Entomologist, 2017, Vol 149, Issue 3, p277
- ISSN
0008-347X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4039/tce.2017.8