Gobiaeshna occulta Pritykina 1977 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Progobiaeshnidae

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

Belongs to Gobiaeshna according to G. Bechly et al. 2001

See also Nel et al. 1994, Pritykina 1977 and Wighton and Wilson 1986

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 3145/672, a forewing (incomplete forewing with destroyed posterior and nodal areas). Its type locality is Anda-Khuduk 2 well, Ushgiin-Nur Mountains (PIN collection 3145), which is in an Aptian terrestrial siliciclastic in the Anda-Khuduk Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Anda-Khuduk 2 well, Ushgiin-Nur Mountains (PIN collection 3145)

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