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The first hangingfly (Insecta: Mecoptera: Bittacidae) from the Cretaceous of Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Julián F. Petrulevičius  and
Ed. A. Jarzembowski
Julián F. Petrulevičius
Affiliation:
1Laboratoire d'Entomologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 45, rue de Buffon, Paris 75005, France, and CONICET, Argentina,
Ed. A. Jarzembowski
Affiliation:
2Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, St Faith's St, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1LH and PRIS, The University, Reading, United Kingdom,
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Bittacidae is small family of insects, but a major family of mecopterans, with about half of its genera known from the Mesozoic (Handlirsch, 1939; Sukatsheva, 1990; Novokschonov, 1993, 1997a, 1997b; Ren, 1993, 1997; Ansorge, 1996; Petrulevičius and Martins-Neto, 2001), mainly from the Jurassic. Cenozoic records are scarce and in most cases are assigned to extant genera (Jarzembowski, 1980; Novokschonov, 1993; Petrulevičius, 1998, 1999, 2001a, 2001b).

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 78 , Issue 6 , November 2004 , pp. 1198 - 1201
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