Baissaeshna prisca Pritykina 1977 (darner dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Aeshnidae

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 Baissaeshna according to G. Bechly et al. 2001

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

Sister taxon: Baissaeshna zherikhini

Type specimen: PIN 1989/1495, 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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