Insecta - Odonata - Gomphaeschnidae
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 Gomphaeschna according to A. Nel et al. 1994
See also Pritykina 1977 and Wighton and Wilson 1986
Sister taxa: Gomphaeschna carinthiae, Gomphaeschna miocenica, Gomphaeschna schrankii, Gomphaeschna sibirica
Type specimen: PIN 1989/1808, a hindwing (hindwing without base). Its type locality is Baissa (PIN collection 1989), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large siltstone/marl in the Zaza Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 1989)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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