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Acknowledgments 
We thank Dave Stricklan for the generous donation of the 
holotype specimen as well as Victor Call for the second specimen. 
Many thanks are given to Dr. J. Kukalova-Peck of Carleton 
University for valuable information and numerous suggestions that 
greatly improved this paper and to Dr. A. T. Cross of Michigan 
State University for his assistance with stratigraphic problems. 
Additional thanks are extended to J. Chandler for help with 
literature searches and to N. Hebbert for inking the illustrations. 
Summary 
A fossil megasecopteran of the family Brodiopteridae, Brodi- 
optera stricklani n. sp., is described. This is the first report of a 
nearly complete specimen of the family and is the first insect 
recorded from the transitional Mississippian-Pennsylvanian (Nam- 
urian A and B) Manning Canyon Shale Formation of Utah in west- 
ern North America. 
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