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A new fossil eomeropid (Insecta, Mecoptera) from the Jiulongshan Formation, Inner Mongolia, China

  • 1. College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 (P. R. China) junxiazhang2008@foxmail.com chungkun.shih@gmail.com
  • 2. Div. Paleozoología Invertebrados, Museo de La Plata-UNLP-CONICET, Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata 1900 (Argentina) levicius@fcnym.unlp.edu.ar
  • 3. College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District, Beijing, 100048 (P. R. China) rendong@mail.cnu.edu.cn

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Zhang, Junxia, Shih, Chungkun, Petrulevičius, Julián Fernando, Ren, Dong (2011): A new fossil eomeropid (Insecta, Mecoptera) from the Jiulongshan Formation, Inner Mongolia, China. Zoosystema 33 (4): 443-450, DOI: 10.5252/z2011n4a2, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2011n4a2

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