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Issue: Vol. 3503 No. 1: 2 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3503.1.4
Page range: 55–60
Abstract views: 52
PDF downloaded: 1

Full description of Cordulagomphus primaerensis from Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous of Brazil) (Odonata: Aeshnoptera: Proterogomphidae)

Museo de La Plata, División Paleozoología Invertebrados, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, and CONICET, Argentina
Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Campus Cariri/FUNCAP/Sociedade Brasileira de Paleoartropodologia—SBPr. Av. Tenente Raimundo Rocha, s/n, Cidade Universitária, 63000-000, Juazeiro do Norte, CE, Brazil
Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Biology, Fanar—Matn - P. O. box 26110217 Lebanon
Saint-Joseph University, P.O. box 165507, Beirut, Lebanon
CNRS UMR 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CP 50, Entomologie, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005, Paris, France
Odonata Insecta Lower Cretaceous Crato Member Brazil taxonomy

Abstract

Thanks to the discovery of a new specimen, we discuss and confirm the differences proposed by Petrulevičius and Martins-Neto, 2007 (in Bechly, 2007) between Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) primaerensis Petrulevičius and Martins-Neto, 2007 and its close relative Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) michaeli Bechly, 2007.

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