Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
Alternative combination: Leptaeschnidium araripina
Full reference: F. L. Carle and D. C. Wighton. 1990. Insects from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, of Brazil. Chapter 3: Odonata. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 195:51-68
Belongs to Wightonia according to G. Bechly 2007
See also Carle and Wighton 1990, Fleck and Nel 2003 and Nel and Martínez-Delclòs 1993
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH 53268, a hindwing. Its type locality is Crato (AMNH collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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