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THE OLDEST ANTS ARE CRETACEOUS, NOT EOCENE: REPLY1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

George Poinar ,
Cesare Baroni Urbani  and
Alex Brown
George Poinar*
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States 97331
Cesare Baroni Urbani
Affiliation:
Institut fur Natur-, Landschafts-und Umweltschutz, Abteilung Biogeographie, Neuhausstrasse 31, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Alex Brown
Affiliation:
629 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California, United States 94708
*
2 Author to whom all corresponding should be addressed (E-mail: poinarg@bcc.orst.edu).
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Our study of the Hat Creek amber (Poinar et al. 1999) was undertaken to determine the range of the biota in the resin, to identify the plant that produced the resin, and to assess the future implications of these significant deposits. The study was in no way “compromised” by providing an alternative interpretation of the systematic position of the genus Sphecomyrma Wilson and Brown.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 132 , Issue 5 , October 2000 , pp. 695 - 696
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 2000

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Footnotes

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Reply to Grimaldi D, Agosti D. 2000. The Canadian Entomologist 132: 691–3.

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