Late Quaternary Ant Fossils From Packrat Middens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for Climatic Change in the Chihuahuan Desert
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- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
- Vol. 99 (2-3) , 169-184
- https://doi.org/10.1155/1992/82014
Abstract
Packrat (Neotoma spp.) middens in rock-shelters provide important paleoecological records for the desert regions of North America. Specimens of various arthropod species accumulate in the middens and are cemented into a black, tarry mass by packrat urine.Keywords
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