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FIRST RECORD OF CALYPTERATE FLIES IN THE MESOZOIC ERA (DIPTERA: CALLIPHORIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. F. McAlpine
J. F. McAlpine
Affiliation:
Entomology Research Institute, Canada Department of Agriculture, Ottawa
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Abstract

Fossil puparia from the Edmonton Formation (Upper Cretaceous, about 70,000,000 years) at Drumheller, Alta., are assigned to the family Calliphoridae and described as Cretaphormia fowleri new genus, new species. This is the first pre-Tertiary record of muscoid flies.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 102 , Issue 3 , March 1970 , pp. 342 - 346
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1970

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