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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY
卷 111, 期 1, 页码 137-141出版社
CZECH ACAD SCI, INST ENTOMOLOGY
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2014.014
关键词
Dictyoptera; Isoptera; Mastotermitidae; eusociality; fossil insects; Mesozoic; Chernovskie Kopi; Transbaikalian Russia
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资金
- MVTS UNESCO
- VEGA [0125]
- Slovak Research and Development Agency [APVV-0436-12]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [11-04-01712, 13-04-01839]
- Program The problems of the Life Origin and the Biosphere forming of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- President RF Support of Young Scientists [MK-6619.2013.4]
- The problems of the Life Origin and the Biosphere forming of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
The earliest termite of the extant genus Mastotermes, is herein recorded in the Jurassic/Cretaceous (J/K) transitional beds of Chernovskie Kopi in Transbaikalian Russia along with Santonitermes of an uncertain family. These records represent the earliest eusocial organisms. No termites have ever been recorded among the hundreds of thousands of fossil insects in the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary Beds of China and Mongolia or in prior time periods. Both genera indicate that the early termites survived for an extremely long period of time. The present find both provides evidence of the greatest ghost range (60 Mya) of any winged stem cockroach family and indicates that the origin of termites and evolution of eusociality occurred later than the Middle Jurassic.
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