The first mayfly from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England (Insecta: Ephemerida = Ephemeroptera)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 461-463

  Sinitshenkova, Nina D ^a   Coram, Robert A ^b,c  

^a PALEONTOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b The University ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

England; Ephemeroptera; Fossil insects; Gen. nov.; Lower Cretaceous; Purbeck; Sp. Nov.

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; FLY; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; TAXONOMY; WING MORPHOLOGY;

ENGLAND (DORSET); UNITED KINGDOM;

DURLOPHLEBIA RADLEYI; EPHEMERIDA; EPHEMEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0041765858     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/cres.2002.1018     Document Type: Article

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