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

1 March 1970

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist

Vol. 102 (3) , 342-346
https://doi.org/10.4039/ent102342-3

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.

Keywords

CALYPTERATE FLIES
GENUS
DIPTERA
PRE
FOSSIL
PUPARIA
EDMONTON
DRUMHELLER

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