Insecta - Odonata - Araripechlorogomphidae
Full reference: G. Bechly and K. Ueda. 2002. The first fossil record and first New World record for the dragonfly clade Chlorogomphida (Insecta: Odonata: Anisoptera: Araripechlorogomphidae n fam) from the Crato Limestone (Lower Cretaceous, Brazil). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 328:1-11
Belongs to Araripechlorogomphus according to A. Nel and G. C. Ribeiro 2024
See also Bechly 2007 and Bechly and Ueda 2002
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: KMNHIP000004, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Crato (Museum of Kitakyushu 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 (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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