Aeschnogomphus kuempeli Bechly 2000 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Aktassiidae

Full reference: G. Bechly. 2000. Two new fossil dragonfly species (Insecta: Odonata: Pananisoptera: Aeschnidiidae and Atassiidae) from the Solnhofen lithographic limestones (Upper Jurassic, Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 288:1-9

Belongs to Aeschnogomphus according to G. Bechly 2000

Sister taxa: Aeschnogomphus buchi, Aeschnogomphus intermedius

Type specimen: Kumpel Coll Jura Museum, an exoskeleton (complete male). Its type locality is Kinderdorf Quarry, Eichstätt (Solnhofen), which is in a Tithonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Solnhofen Formation of Germany.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Kinderdorf Quarry, Eichstätt (Solnhofen)

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