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is in the Peabody Museum at Yale University, where I examined it 
several years ago. Although Handlirsch figured only the hind wing 
(so far as it was preserved), a portion of the fore wing is also present; 
this is clearly narrow, more like that of the Meganeuridae than of the 
Paralogidae, where Paralogopsis has previously been placed (Fraser, 
1957). However, since the key parts of the wings (such as the fork- 
ing of Rs) are not included in the preserved portion, the family rela- 
tionships remain obscure. 
Text figure 3. Drawing of Paralogopsis longipes Handl. (holotype). Let- 
tering as in text figure 1. 
The significance of this fossil is that it provides the only record of 
the Protodonata in the Carboniferous strata of the Eastern Interior 
Region of North America. The Frances Creek shales, which yield 
these ironstone nodules, are considered part of the Carbondale Forma- 
tion ; this is regarded as about equivalent to the middle or late W est- 
phalian stage (late C or early D) of Europe. 
