Recently added articles from Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science:
Skull of the ankylosaur Niobrarasaurus coleii (Ankylosauria: Nodosauridae) from the Smoky Hill Chalk (Coniacian) of western Kansas.
Mar 22, 2007; ... The skull of the nodosaurid Niobrarasaurus coleii (Mehl) is redescribed as the result of the discovery of additional material, including the partially crushed braincase. The bone surface shows moderate remodeling, but not to the point of sutural obliteration. The snout section suggests a ...
First equid remains from the late Miocene Prolithospermum johnstonii-Nassella pohlii assemblage zone stratotype locality, Ellis County, Kansas.
Mar 22, 2007; ... The first equid remains are reported from sediments at the late Miocene Ogallala stratotype locality (Joseph R Thomasson Site 9a=JRT Site 9a) of the Prolithospermum johnstonii-Nassella pohlii Assemblage Zone in Ellis County, Kansas. The two specimens were recovered from a diatomaceous marl ...
A new Amegilla of the zonata group from Malaysia and Thailand (Hymenoptera: Apidae).
Mar 22, 2007; ... A new bee species of the genus Amegilla (Apinae: Anthophorini) is described and figured from western Malaysia and southern Thailand. Amegilla anekawarna Engel, new species, belongs to the zonata group of species and can be most readily confused with the widespread A. zonata (Linnaeus). The ...
Permopanorpa inaequalis Tillyard, 1926 (Insecta: Holometabola: Panorpida: Permopanorpidae): a fossil mecopteroid newly reported for the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Noble County, Oklahoma.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Eight species of mecopteroid Panorpida are known from the Lower Permian Wellington Formation of Elmo (Dickinson County), Kansas; one of those species, Permopanorpa inaequalis Tillyard, 1926, is documented for the first time from the Wellington Formation fossil insect beds of Noble County, ...
Testing a non-lethal DNA isolation technique for freshwater mussels that is compatible with polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based studies.(deoxyribonucleic acid)
Mar 22, 2007; ... In this study, a non-lethal DNA isolation technique was developed for freshwater mussels. A total of 45 Quadrula quadrula, 21 Q. metanevra, and 19 Q. pustulosa were collected from the Neosho and Verdigris Rivers in eastern Kansas. DNA was successfully isolated from 82 mussels using the ...