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Early Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of western North America from the Okanagan Highlands and Green River Formation

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4397-2497 & Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States of America & Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 9W2, Canada
  • 2. Federal Scientific Centre of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivo-

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Archibald, S. Bruce, Makarkin, Vladimir N. (2021): Early Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of western North America from the Okanagan Highlands and Green River Formation. Zootaxa 4951 (1): 41-79, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4951.1.2

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