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Kishenehna prima, a new genus and species of darner dragonfly (Odonata, Aeshnidae, Gomphaeschninae) from the early middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation of Montana, USA
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- 1. Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada 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. RCannings@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9491-8186
- 2. Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 9W2, Canada. RCannings@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9491-8186
- 3. Department of Paleobiology, NMNH, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012 MRC 121, Washington, DC, 20013-7012, USA. greenwaltde@gmail.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9811-6356
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Archibald, S. Bruce, Cannings, Robert A., Greenwalt, Dale E. (2022): Kishenehna prima, a new genus and species of darner dragonfly (Odonata, Aeshnidae, Gomphaeschninae) from the early middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation of Montana, USA. Zootaxa 5099 (4): 496-500, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5099.4.5
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