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Science 27 June 1969:
Vol. 164. no. 3887, pp. 1529 - 1530
DOI: 10.1126/science.164.3887.1529
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Permian Insect Wing from Antarctic Sentinel Mountains

Paul Tasch 1 and Edgar F. Riek 2

1 Department of Geology, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas 67208
2 Division of Entomology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Canberra, A. C. T., Australia

A homopterous insect wing was found in micaceous graywacke from the Polarstar Formation, Sentinel Mountains. The unusual venation is reminiscent of family Stenoviciidae known from the Permian and Triassic of Eastern Australia and elsewhere. This first documented account of Paleozoic insects in Antarctica bears on drift questions.

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