Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10122011 | Cretaceous Research | 2018 | 22 Pages |
Abstract
The fossil dragonfly is a perfect model to study past biogeography. Araripegomphidae is an ancient Gondwanan family comprising the sole genus Araripegomphus previously from the Crato Formation (Upper Aptian) of Brazil. For the first time, a non-rock find, Araripegomphus shai sp. nov., is here described from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. This rare araripegomphid dragonfly extends the range of Araripegomphus to the west Burma block.
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Authors
Daran Zheng, Su-Chin Chang, André Nel, Edmund A. Jarzembowski, De Zhuo, Haichun Zhang, Bo Wang,