Talk:Melittosphex burmensis

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[edit] Description in Science

The species will be described in the November 3, 2006 Science, but I do not know the dating conventions for that journal, so cannot cite it properly at this time. Perhaps someone can fill in once the journal is released?

[edit] Low importance?

Sorry, don't buy the idea that the first fossil record of bees is low importance. Larry Dunn 17:28, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Every lineage has a first specimen, so while indeed, bees are important, this is an intersting fossil, but is not of such great importance. It's an interesting scientific curiosity, but apart from extending the fossil record of bees back a bit, it doesn't bring about any fundamental changes to our understanding of the world. There are a ahell of a lot of insect species, and it takes more than this (in my opinion) to warrant anything other than low-importance. --Stemonitis 12:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)