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Volume
46, Number 1, February 2000:
The Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas
ISSUE
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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the author
IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- the elmo site as part of the Kansas-Oklahoma
permian
- a short history of the discovery
and study of the elmo fossils
- the insects: part 1, part
2, part 3,
- references
- back cover
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The
Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas
by
Roy J. Beckemeyer
About
the Author
I owe a
debt of gratitude to a number of people who helped to make
this issue possible. Drs. Sonny Ramaswamy and Ralph Charlton (Kansas
State Univ. Entomology Department) allowed me to scan fossils
in the KSU collection and provided copies of papers on Elmo
fossils, including D.A. Wilbur, Sr.’s KSU report.
Jason Dinges of Hays, Kansas, who is currently working
the Elmo site under lease, allowed me to visit and photograph
the site. Rod Asher
(Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand), provided scanned
images of the glass plates made to illustrate a number of
Dr. R.J. Tillyards’ original type descriptions of Kansas Permian
Insects, and authorized their use here. Liz Brosius (Kansas
Geological Survey) provided copies of her articles and notes
on Dr. Frank M. Carpenter and photos of him as well. Tim White (Sr. Collections Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology, Yale’s
Peabody Museum of Natural History) provided photos of Dunbar
and Schuchert as well as images of Elmo fossils in the Yale
collection. Dr. Ebbe S. Nielsen (Dir., Australian National
Insect Collection, Canberra, Australia) authorized use of
a photo of R.J. Tillyard.
Dr. George Byers (Kansas Univ.) allowed me to scan
specimens from his personal teaching collection of Elmo fossils.
Ann Molineux (Collections Manager, Non-vertebrate Paleontology,
Texas Memorial Museum, Univ. of Texas) provided a photo and information
on E.H. Sellards. The Snow Entomological Museum allowed use of
their photo of Frank Carpenter.
Special thanks to Liz Brosius, George Byers, and John
Richard Schrock for reviewing and thereby much improving this
issue. ~ Roy Beckemeyer,
12/99.
Roy J. Beckemeyer (957 Perry, Wichita, KS 67203-3141, Email
address: royb@southwind.net)
is a retired aeronautical engineer and an avocational entomologist
interested in the mechanics and evolution of flight
in nature. He is also
the coauthor of the Kansas School Naturalist issues on dragonflies
and damselflies of Kansas.
A checklist of Elmo Permian insects that includes full
synonymies is available from the author.
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