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Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
insect science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1744-7917
pISSN - 1672-9609
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2011.01527.x
Subject(s) - fauna , biology , paleozoic , cockroach , paleontology , mesozoic , cover (algebra) , ecology , archaeology , geography , structural basin , mechanical engineering , engineering
Cockroaches were dominant insects in diverse Palaeozoic and Mesozoic localities. After the boundary with the Cenozoic (when dinosaurs went extinct), cockroaches are nearly absent and the first significant locality is the Green River in Colorado, USA. It indicates the Eocene cockroaches belong to living genera. The same cosmopolitan fauna is characteristic for the Mexican amber, but after that (possible due to Mid‐Miocene disruption) it was replaced by contemporary cockroach fauna in both Americas. See pages 143–152. Photo provided by Peter Vršanský