Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Full reference: F. L. Carle. 1990. Taxonomic names, in Insects from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, of Brazil. Chapter 3: Odonata. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 195:66
Parent taxon: Aeschnidiidae according to G. Bechly 2007
See also Carle and Wighton 1990, Fleck and Nel 2003 and Nel and Martínez-Delclòs 1993
Sister taxa: Aegyptidium, Aeschnidiella, Aeschnidiopsis, Aeschnidium, Angloaeschnidium, Bergeriaeschnidia, Brunetaeschnidium, Brunneaeschnidia, Cooperaeschnidium, Coramaeschnidium, Cratoaeschnidium, Dakotaeschnidium, Delclosaeschidium, Diastatopaeschnidium, Dracontaeschnidium, Gansuaeschnidia, Gigantoaeschnidium, Hebeiaeschnidia, Iberoaeschnidium, Jarzembowskiaeschnidium, Kesseleraeschnidium, Kimmeridgebrachypteraeschnidium, Leptaeschnidium, Libellula abscissa, Linaeschnidium, Lithoaeschnidium, Lleidoaeschnidium, Malmaeschnidium, Misofaeschnidium, Nannoaeschnidium, Neimengogomphus, Neimengogomphus dongwugaiensis, Pseudosamarura, Pseudosamarura largina, Rossaeschnidium, Santanoptera, Sinaeschnidia, Sinostenophlebia, Solnhofenia, Stylaeschnidium, Tauropteryx, Urogomphus, Yixiangomphus, Yixiangomphus labius, Sona
Subtaxa: Wightonia araripina
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
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