Superfamily Aeshnoidea Leach 1815 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata

Parent taxon: Euaeshnodea according to G. Bechly 2007

See also Jarzembowski 1988 and Nel and Martínez-Delclòs 1993

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Aeshnidae Telephlebiidae

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Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (2 collections), Slovakia (1)

• Blancan of United States (1: Texas)

• Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (1), China (6), the Czech Republic (3), France (4), Germany (4), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3)

• Oligocene of the Czech Republic (3), France (8), Germany (3), Kazakhstan (2), Spain (1)

• Eocene of Argentina (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), China (1), Denmark (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (5: Colorado, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of United States (1: Alaska)

• Paleocene of Canada (1: Alberta), France (1)

• Cretaceous of China (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (3)

Total: 75 collections including 106 occurrences

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