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WILSON, H. M., MARTILL, D. M. 2001. A new japygid dipluran from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Palaeontology, 44, 5, 1025–1031.
Heather M. Wilson and David M. Martill The first Mesozoic japygid (Hexapoda: Diplura), Ferrojapyx vivax gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation of north-east Brazil. There are only two previously described occurrences of japygids in the fossil record: in Miocene or Pliocene onyx marble from Arizona and from the Carboniferous (Westphalian D) Francis Creek Shale of Mazon Creek, Illinois. Wiley Online Library