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Issue: Vol. 5424 No. 4: 15 Mar. 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-03-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5424.4.9
Page range: 497-500
Abstract views: 90
PDF downloaded: 6

Discovery in Burmese amber of the youngest-known aktassiid dragonfly (Odonata: Anisoptera)

School of GeoSciences; Yangtze University; Wuhan; 430100; China; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing; 100049; China
Institut de Systématique; Évolution; Biodiversité; ISYEB-UMR 7205-CNRS; MNHN; UPMC; EPHE; Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; Sorbonne Universités; 57 rue Cuvier; CP 50; Entomologie; F-75005; Paris; France
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China
School of GeoSciences; Yangtze University; Wuhan; 430100; China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy; Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; 39 East Beijing Road; Nanjing; 210008; China
Odonata Anisoptera dragonfly

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