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Joint 52nd Northeastern Annual Section / 51st North-Central Annual Section Meeting - 2017

Paper No. 46-13
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

THE WORLD'S OLDEST BEE? A CRATO LIMESTONE INSECT WITH APOIDEA-LIKE FEATURES


STOKES, Jacob R., ERWAY, Catherine, PFADT, Victoria A. and MCKENZIE, Scott C., Department of Geology, Mercyhurst University, 501 East 38th St., Erie, PA 16504, jstoke44@lakers.mercyhurst.edu

A bee or not a bee? A Lower Cretaceous fossil insect from the H. R. Axelrod collection shows several characteristics that make it a candidate for the world's oldest bee. Bees may have played an important or even vital role in the evolution of flowering plants through the mechanism of pollination. Angiosperms and bees are closely linked in ways that may turn out to be even more ancient than previously thought. This potential fossil bee or bee relative from the Crato formation may push this link back even further into the Lower Cretaceous.

Session No. 46--Booth# 13

Paleontology (Posters)
Monday, 20 March 2017: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Grand Ballroom, 17th Floor (Omni William Penn Hotel)
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 49, No. 2
doi: 10.1130/abs/2017NE-290770
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