Gomphaeschna inferna Pritykina 1977 (true dragonfly)

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)

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