Insecta - Odonata - Platycnemididae
Full reference: D. R. Zheng, A. Nel, E. A. Jarzembowski, S. C. Chang, H. C. Zhang, F. Y. Xia, H. Y. Liu and B. Wang. 2017. Extreme adaptations for probable visual courtship behaviour in a Cretaceous dancing damselfly. Scientific Reports 7(44932):1-8
Belongs to Yijenplatycnemis according to D. R. Zheng et al. 2018
See also Zheng et al. 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NIGP 164757, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3 collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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