†Gobiaeshna Pritykina 1977 (true dragonfly)
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Insecta - Odonata - Progobiaeshnidae
Alternative spelling: Gobiaeschna
Full reference: L. N. Pritykina. 1977. New dragonflies from Lower Cretaceous deposits of Transbaikalia and Mongolia. Trudy Sovmestnaya Sovetsko-Mongol'skaya Paleontologicheskaya Ekspeditsiya 4:81-96
Parent taxon: Progobiaeshnidae according to G. Bechly et al. 2001
See also Carpenter 1992, Nel et al. 1994 and Pritykina 1977
Sister taxa: Decoraeshna, Mongoliaeshna, Paradecoraeshna, Progobiaeshna
Subtaxa: Gobiaeshna occulta
Type: Gobiaeshna occulta
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Anda-Khuduk 2 well, Ushgiin-Nur Mountains (PIN collection 3145) (Cretaceous of Mongolia)
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