Cymatophlebia zdrzaleki Jarzembowski 1994 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Cymatophlebiidae

Alternative combination: Libellulium zdrzaleki

Full reference: E. A. Jarzembowski. 1994. Fossil dragonflies in Horsham Museum. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 105:71-75

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

See also Jarzembowski 1994

Sister taxa: Cymatophlebia densa, Cymatophlebia herrienae, Cymatophlebia kuempeli, Cymatophlebia longialata, Cymatophlebia pumilio, Cymatophlebia purbeckensis, Cymatophlebia standingae, Cymatophlebia suevica, Cymatophlebia yixianensis

Type specimen: Horsham Mus 1987.727, a hindwing (nearly complete male hindwing). Its type locality is Rudgwick Brickworks, Upper Weald Clay, which is in a Barremian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal horizon in the Weald Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Rudgwick Brickworks, Upper Weald Clay

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