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List of works by Günter Bechly

A camel spider from Cretaceous Burmese amber

article published in 2015

A new extraordinary neuropterid family from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil: a new insect order? (Insecta, Neuropterida)

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A new fossil genus and species of snakefly (Raphidioptera: Mesoraphidiidae) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber, with a discussion of snakefly phylogeny and fossil history

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A new gigantic lacewing species (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil confirms the occurrence of Kalligrammatidae in the Americas

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A re-description of the fossil damselfly Eolestes syntheticus Cockerell, 1940 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Eolestidae n. fam.) with description of new taxa from the Eocene of North America

scientific article (publication date: 24 November 2014)

Burmaphlebia reifi gen. et sp. nov., the first anisozygopteran damsel-dragonfly (Odonata: Epiophlebioptera: Burmaphlebiidae fam. nov.) from Early Cretaceous Burmese amber

Coxoplectoptera, a new fossil order of Palaeoptera (Arthropoda: Insecta), with comments on the phylogeny of the stem group of mayflies (Ephemeroptera)

scholarly article by Arnold Staniczek et al published 1 July 2011 in Insect Systematics and Evolution

Cretonthophilus tuberculatus, a remarkable new genus and species of hister beetle (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber

scientific article (publication date: 2 December 2015)

First Record of Anisoptera (Insecta: Odonata) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber

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First record of the fossil dragonfly family Eumorbaeschnidae from the Upper Jurassic of Poland

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First record of the march fly genus Plecia (Diptera: Bibionidae) in Dominican amber

scholarly article published 1 July 2013

Lower Cretaceous origin of long-distance mate finding behaviour in Hymenoptera (Insecta)

scholarly article by Lars Krogmann et al published January 2013 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Neither silverfish nor fowl: the enigmatic Carboniferous Carbotriplura kukalovae Kluge, 1996 (Insecta: Carbotriplurida) is the putative fossil sister group of winged insects (Insecta: Pterygota)

New fossil insect order Permopsocida elucidates major radiation and evolution of suction feeding in hemimetabolous insects (Hexapoda: Acercaria)

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New predatory cockroaches (Insecta: Blattaria: Manipulatoridae fam.n.) from the Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber

scholarly article by Peter Vršanský & Günter Bechly published 1 April 2015 in Geologica Carpathica

New results concerning the morphology of the most ancient dragonflies (Insecta: Odonatoptera) from the Namurian of Hagen-Vorhalle (Germany)

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Preface

preface of "The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil"

Preservation of three-dimensional anatomy in phosphatized fossil arthropods enriches evolutionary inference

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Revision of the giant pterygote insect Bojophlebia prokopi Kukalová-Peck, 1985 (Hydropalaeoptera: Bojophlebiidae) from the Carboniferous of the Czech Republic, with the first cladistic analysis of fossil palaeopterous insects

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Systematics and evolution of Paleozoic and Mesozoic damselfly-like Odonatoptera of the ‘protozygopteran’ grade

scientific article published in 2012

The Crato Fossil Beds of Brazil

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The Mesozoic non-calopterygoid Zygoptera: description of new genera and species from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Brazil and their phylogenetic significance (Odonata, Zygoptera, Coenagrionoidea, Hemiphlebioidea, Lestoidea)

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The Randeck Maar: Palaeoenvironment and habitat differentiation of a Miocene lacustrine system

article by M.W. Rasser et al published December 2013 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

The Rauenberg fossil Lagerstätte (Baden-Württemberg, Germany): A window into early Oligocene marine and coastal ecosystems of Central Europe

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The Third Petalurid Dragonfly from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil (Odonata: Cretapetaluridae)

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The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata)

scientific article published on 30 August 2013

The damselfly palaeofauna from the Eocene of Wyoming and Colorado, USA (Insecta, Odonata, Zygoptera)

scholarly article published in 2020

The enigmatic Mesozoic insect taxon Chresmodidae (Polyneoptera): New palaeobiological and phylogenetic data, with the description of a new species from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

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