Insecta - Odonata - Steleopteridae

Full reference: A. Handlirsch. 1906. Die Fossilen Insekten und die Phylogenie der Rezenten Formen, parts I-IV. Ein Handbuch fur Palaontologen und Zoologen 1-640

Belongs to Steleopteron according to A. Nel and J. C. Paicheler 1993

See also Handlirsch 1906 and Ponomarenko 1985

Sister taxon: Steleopteron cretacicus

Type specimen: 1903.V3 1985/4, an exoskeleton (Body somewhat dissociated). Its type locality is Eichstätt, Solnhofen (Naturhistorischen Museum Wien collection), 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 Eichstätt, Solnhofen (Naturhistorischen Museum Wien collection)

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