Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) senckenbergi Bechly 1998 (true dragonfly)

Insecta - Odonata - Proterogomphidae

Full reference: G. Bechly. 1998. New fossil dragonflies from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation of north-east Brazil (Insecta: Odonata). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 264:1-66

Belongs to Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) according to G. Bechly 2007

See also Bechly 1998

Sister taxa: Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) michaeli, Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) primaerensis, Cordulagomphus (Procordulagomphus) xavieri

Type specimen: Senckenberg C7, an exoskeleton (male). Its type locality is Crato (SMF collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.

Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Crato (SMF collection)

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