Volume 46, Number 1, February 2000:
The Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas

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Cover Photo: Palaeodictyoptera: Spilapteridae: Dunbaria fasciipennis Tillyard 1924. An extraordinarily well-preserved fossil of an insect, with beautifully patterened wings, from the Permian deposits near Elmo, Kansas, in southeastern Dickinson County. This image was scanned especially for use in this publication by Rod Asher of the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand, from the original glass plate negative used to illustrate the type description.

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The Permian Insect Fossils of Elmo, Kansas
by Roy J. Beckemeyer

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, back cover
- references

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