Articles | Volume 22, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-73-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-73-2019
Research article
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13 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 13 Sep 2019

An insect wing discovered in the Early Permian Taiyuan Formation (Shanxi Province, China)

Jin Wang, Olivier Béthoux, Dong Ren, and Yingying Cui

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Short summary
In this paper we focus on an insect wing fragment from the rarely known Taiyuan Formation (Early Permian; China). It is the first discovery of an arthropod as well as being the first insect, but currently we think the combination characters that the new material exhibited make it difficult to assign it to any known insect group. This indicates that more data are needed in the future. Hopefully our current documentation will be useful for the potential fossil discovery in the Taiyuan Formation.
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