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Dinokanaga dowsonae
Dinokanaga dowsonae is an extinct species of scorpionfly described from Eocene fossil deposits in British Columbia, Canada. It belongs to the family Dinopanorpidae, a group of large-bodied mecopterans known from the Paleogene of North America and Asia. The species was named by paleoentomologist S. Bruce Archibald in 2005 based on well-preserved wing specimens. Like other dinopanorpids, it represents part of the diverse insect fauna that inhabited warm temperate forests during the early Cenozoic.