Insecta - Odonata - Aeschnidiidae
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
Parent taxon: Aeschnidiidae according to G. Fleck and A. Nel 2003
See also Carpenter 1992, Nel and Martínez-Delclòs 1993 and Pritykina 1977
Sister taxa: Aegyptidium, Aeschnidiella, Aeschnidiopsis, Aeschnidium, Angloaeschnidium, Bergeriaeschnidia, Brunetaeschnidium, Brunneaeschnidia, Cooperaeschnidium, Coramaeschnidium, Cratoaeschnidium, Dakotaeschnidium, Delclosaeschidium, Diastatopaeschnidium, Dracontaeschnidium, Gansuaeschnidia, Gigantoaeschnidium, Hebeiaeschnidia, Iberoaeschnidium, Jarzembowskiaeschnidium, Kesseleraeschnidium, Kimmeridgebrachypteraeschnidium, Libellula abscissa, Linaeschnidium, Lithoaeschnidium, Lleidoaeschnidium, Malmaeschnidium, Misofaeschnidium, Nannoaeschnidium, Neimengogomphus, Neimengogomphus dongwugaiensis, Pseudosamarura, Pseudosamarura largina, Rossaeschnidium, Santanoptera, Sinaeschnidia, Sinostenophlebia, Solnhofenia, Stylaeschnidium, Tauropteryx, Urogomphus, Wightonia, Yixiangomphus, Yixiangomphus labius, Sona
Subtaxa: Leptaeschnidium latum
Ecology: fast-moving volant carnivore-insectivore
Distribution: found only at Baissa (PIN collection 1989) (Cretaceous of Russian Federation)
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