Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates

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	Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates
	Gao, Tai-ping; Shih, Chung-kun; Xu, Xing; Wang, Shuo; Ren, Dong; rendong@mail.cnu.edu.cn
	2012
关键词	Siphonaptera Insecta Fossil Age
摘要	Parasite-host associations among insects and mammals or birds are well attended by neontological studies [1]. An Eocene bird louse compression fossil [2, 3] and several flea specimens from Eocene and Oligocene ambers [4-8], reported to date, are exceptionally similar to living louse and flea taxa. But the origin, morphology, and early evolution of parasites and their associations with hosts are poorly known [9, 101 due to sparse records of putative ectoparasites with uncertain classification in the Mesozoic, most lacking mouthpart information and other critical details of the head morphology [11-15]. Here we present two primitive flea-like species assigned to the Pseudopulicidae Gao, Shih et Ren familia nova (fam. nov.), Pseudopulex jurassicus Gao, Shih et Ren genus novum et species nova (gen. et sp. nov) from the Middle Jurassic [16] and P. magnus Gao, Shih et Ren sp. nov. from the Early Cretaceous in China [17]. They exhibit many features of ectoparasitic insects. Large body size and long serrated stylets for piercing tough and thick skin or hides of hosts suggest that these primitive ectoparasites might have lived on and sucked the blood of relatively large hosts, such as contemporaneous feathered dinosaurs and/or pterosaurs or medium-sized mammals (found in the Early Cretaceous, but not the Middle Jurassic).
页数	732—735
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文献类型	学位论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4299
专题	古低等脊椎动物研究室
通讯作者	rendong@mail.cnu.edu.cn
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gao, Tai-ping,Shih, Chung-kun,Xu, Xing,et al. Mid-Mesozoic Flea-like Ectoparasites of Feathered or Haired Vertebrates[D],2012.

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