Michael S Engel1, David A Grimaldi

  • 1Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Snow Hall, 1460 Jayhawk Blvd, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7523, USA. msengel@ku.edu

Nature
|February 13, 2004
PubMed
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来自苏格兰的化石Rhyniognatha hirsti被确定为最早的真正昆虫,起源于西卢里亚时期. 这一发现表明,昆虫的进化和翅膀的起源比以前认为的更早.